Aldous Huxley
Speaking Personally... Aldous Huxley
Track Listing:
| 1. I started writing... | |
2. Why wouldn't you have been good in medical practice? | |
3. How did you come to publish? | |
4. Was your defect of eyesight a great handicap? ...mp3 | |
5. Are there writers who will survive and be read? | |
6. What is the relationship of the artist to his time? | |
7. How serious is the impact on your mind of Freud? | |
8. Victorian social consciousness - mummy of Jeremy
Bentham | |
9. Won't you say something about DH Lawrence? | |
10. Would you say something about the process that took
you to unorthodox religion? | |
11. Surely zen is inward turning? | |
12. What part has the supernatural in your life? | |
13. Symbols | |
14. Mysticism hinges upon superstition? | |
15. The Devils of Loudon | |
16. Why did you settle in California? | |
17. How often have you taken mescaline yourself? ...mp3 |
Format :CD
Catalogue No:artswcd001
Release Date :16 Dec 2002 Aldous Huxley was interviewed by Dennis Preston from Lansdowne Recording Studios.
"The interview took place in the London summer-two long afternoons, punctuated by tea and sherry, in Aldous's sitting-room with the view of the trees in Ennismore Gardens. The range of subjects was very wide. Aldous, as the case might be, responded to his interviewer,side-stepped or expanded. The great point of it all is that it has left us with such a characteristic record not only of Aldous's thought but of Aldous's way of expressing it; more spontaneous, more informal than his writing, more informal still than his lectures and broadcasts-there was no time limit, no audience ... This record comes as near as anything to the way Aldous talked to his friends. This was his conversation."
Sybille Bedford, from "ALDOUS HUXLEY, A BIOGRAPHY-Volume 2"
"What made him exciting as a novelist was that he was interested and inspired not only by human character, but by the way that nature works. . . It's this curiosity about the physical world which distinguished him among writers today..."
Dr. J. Bronowski
"...he, Aldous Huxley had a sense of what men stood and stand in need of, and a premonition of the direction in which, if mankind survives at all, it will be moving.. .. . . he always returned to the single theme that dominated his later years: the condition of men in the twentieth century ...... He had a cause and he served it. The cause was to awaken his readers, scientists and laymen alike, to the connections, hitherto inadequately investigated and described between regions artificially divided: physical and mental, sensuous and spiritual, inner and outer..."
Sir Isaiah Berlin (1965). Reprinted from Aidous Huxley: A MEMORIAL VOLUME edited by Julian Huxley
by permission of the Editor and Chatto & Windus Limited.
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