Antic Hay
Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley, published by Triad in 1977, is a literary exploration of London life just after World War I. This edition spans 250 pages and presents a society grappling with chaos and a lack of values, as various characters navigate a world filled with superficiality and confusion. Huxley captures the essence of lost souls in pursuit of pleasure and meaning, depicting a vibrant yet disordered landscape.
Readers will encounter a diverse cast, including fake artists, third-rate poets, and bewildered romantics, all contributing to a narrative that oscillates between the lyrical and the absurd. The characters in Antic Hay experience shifting identities, reflecting the tumultuous nature of their environment. This novel intricately weaves themes of fiction and literary exploration, offering a vivid portrayal of a society in disarray.
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London life just after World War I, devoid of values and moving headlong into chaos at breakneck speed – Aldous Huxley’s Antic Hay, like Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, portrays a world of lost souls madly pursuing both pleasure and meaning. Fake artists, third-rate poets, pompous critics, pseudo-scientists, con-men, bewildered romantics, cock-eyed futurists – all inhabit this world spinning out of control, as wildly comic as it is disturbingly accurate. In a style that ranges from the lyrical to the absurd, and with characters whose identities shift and change as often as their names and appearances, Huxley has here invented a novel that bristles with life and energy, what the New York Times called “a delirium of sense enjoyment!”
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