Lluís Soler recommends a book that "stayed with him"

BarcelonaThe actor Lluís Soler (Manlleu, 1954) often says he's more comfortable living in the 20th century than the 21st, and in fact, he's an analog man without social media. He looks back at the voracity with which the internet has consumed contemporary society and quotes Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Labutxaca, translated by Ramon Folch and Camarasa) as the book that best predicted where humanity is headed. "I read it many years ago, maybe 40 or 45, but it stayed with me. Huxley wrote it in 1931, but if we haven't surpassed everything he imagined, we're almost there. We live in an uncontrollable world in which all values change very quickly," says Soler, who this summer released The storm, Shakespeare's, with The Pearl 29.

"I remember few concrete things about the story. I was surprised that the women were pneumatic. And then I have the feeling that Huxley wrote about a world governed by superficial happiness, and we're heading this way, or maybe we're already there," the actor reflects. "When I work or talk with younger people, 25 or 30 years younger, I realize that they're almost like other humans, who have nothing to do with me. They operate on very different principles. I think that's fine, I'm just observing it. I'm not going to get involved, but don't make me follow them," Soler adds.

Aldous Huxley's novel is a science fiction classic that recreates a seemingly perfect society in a futuristic setting. Humans live medicated with antidepressants, without pain or discomfort. As the story progresses, starring psychologist Bernard Marx, this utopian society falls apart. The world does its thing. In a few years, life will have nothing to do with it now," the actor predicts.