Crome Yellow

Crome Yellow

Aldous Huxley , Barry (ویرایشگر)
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Jul 23, 2017 · انگلیسی · جلد نرم (185 صفحات)
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صفحات 185
زبان انگلیسی
منتشر شده Jul 23, 2017
ناشر Independently published
ISBN-10 1521914559
ISBN-13 9781521914557

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On vacation from school, Denis goes to stay at Crome, an English country house inhabitated by several of Huxley’s most outlandish characters–from Mr. Barbecue-Smith, who writes 1,500 publishable words an hour by “getting in touch” with his “subconscious,” to Henry Wimbush, who is obsessed with writing the definitive History of Crome. Denis’s stay proves to be a disaster amid his weak attempts to attract the girl of his dreams and the ridicule he endures regarding his plan to write a novel about love and art. Aldous Huxley’s first novel, Crome Yellow, was published in 1921, and, as a comedy of manners and ideas, its relatively realistic setting and format may come as a surprise to fans of his later works such as Point Counter Point and Brave New World. Some who know only Brave New World may not know that as a 16-year-old planning to enter medicine, Aldous Huxley was stricken by a serious eye disease which left him temporarily blind, and which derailed what certainly would have been a prominent career as a physician or scientist. Crome Yellow has often been called “witty,” as well as “talky,” and it certainly owes as much to Vanity Fair as it may, surprisingly to some, owe to Tristram Shandy, although one might think that characters such as Mr. Barbecue-Smith and his remarkable writing theories could have some literary antecedents in Lawrence Sterne. Lambasting the post-Victorian standards of morality, Crome Yellow is a witty masterpiece that, in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s words, “is too irnonic to be called satire and too scornful to be called irony.”

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Richie 1
Richie 1 @richie.1

This is a work I personally prefer to Brave New World. It is brief, partly autobiographical, and suggests a satirical portrayal of the author's own experience with some members of the Bloomsbury group. But the literary merits of Crome Yellow exceed, by far, the scope of a biographical reading. As a Modernist work, Huxley's first novel breaks free from the traditional form, and creates a work of fiction with no definite plot. From beginning to end, it follows no particular chain or sequence of events with the usual conflict and climax structure, but recounts instead the different occurrences and the various feelings and thoughts of its characters.At the same time, the plot addresses the constants of existence namely death, freedom, isolation, and the meaninglessness of life along with the various defense mechanisms used by the different characters in order to cope with such anxieties.Denis flees the fear of death in the embrace of literary production and fame. Mr. Scogan denies both freedom and responsibility over his life by attributing his own failure to the powers of the cosmos. Jenny uses isolation to shut out the painful truths from her life. Similarly, Henry Wimbush isolates himself in the study of his ancestors' history because he fears the future and all that it can bring him. Priscilla, on the other hand, flees the meaninglessness of life by attaching meaning and omniscience to horoscope and astrology.Huxley's debut novel remains today a work so very underrated when compared to some of his other compositions. In truth, however, it is just as brilliant; different maybe in tone and atmosphere, but definitely worth your time.

February 18th 2026
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