Author:Aldous Huxley Category:Humor Published: 01/01/1923 Country: United Kingdom Language: English File Size: 2.2 MB Tags:Classics | comedy | drama | Fiction | Humor | novel |
Description:
Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley summarized whole theme of this novel as “contemporary civilization is damnable, and…the dark stream of Time is the only reality.” A 1961 scholarly journal article characterized the book’s theme as “disunity, disorder and disorganization” whose characters “illustrate a disreputable world disintegrating into fragments.
A satire of post-World War I London intellectuals, the work follows Theodore Gumbril, Jr., the protagonist, and his bohemian friends as they drift aimlessly through their lives in search of happiness.