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Pastimes : A CENTURY OF LIONS/THE 20TH CENTURY TOP 100
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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (3155)1/2/2002 11:19:19 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) of 3246
 
Eliot counts. You may as well count Huxley as American because he lived so long in California. Lawrence lived for awhile in the Southwest, and Mann also spent time in America.

Wells, in his fiction, got people to thinking of the social implications of the emerging technology, to a degree, I suspect, that Jules Verne did not. Hesse did something important, in reminding people of the claims of the spiritual. In "Magister Ludi" (aka "The Glass Bead Game") he examined important issues relating to growth and decay, the relationship of the individual to the group, and of groups to history, and so on. Huxley is primarily important for imagining a more plausible ending to the application of technology and social planning, and for seeing the problem. In all cases, they created central images through which many people have thought about the problems of pursuing social perfection in the form of efficiency and peacefulness, at the expense of other dimensions of human need......
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