Antic Hay
by Aldous Huxley · first published 1923
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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 appe
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As a person who read and enjoyed Crome Yellow and Antic Hay, I'm glad Huxley didn't care what his friends thought of it
on “Aldous Huxley insisted “Crome Yellow” was fiction. Ottoline Morrell disagreed” ↗This wasn't the only novel of Huxley's that his acquaintances saw themselves in to their dismay. His Antic Hay has a brilliant scientist. Professor Shearwater, with a wife who cheats on him. Apparently Shearwater was an obvious representation of J.B.S. Haldane, who was not amused.
on “Aldous Huxley insisted “Crome Yellow” was fiction. Ottoline Morrell disagreed” ↗Aldous Huxley wrote about this in Antic Hay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antic_Hay
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