读过 Crome Yellow 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
赫胥黎的debut novel，其实和想象中风格差异挺大的，不过毕竟他的作品我之前只读了Brave New World。哪怕只是debut，也已经可以感觉到赫胥黎展露出的文学大师的气质，运笔非常顺畅，在有限的篇幅里塑造出了弧光完整又有特色的角色。这本书总体上说的是一个英国庄园里的聚会，文人间的嬉笑怒骂和没有结果的情愫，给人的感觉是什么也没发生，但又发生了很多，没有情节的书很难有什么记忆点，但我却切切实实地记住了用潜意识的天人联接写书的Barbecue-Smith，Wimbush的Crome历史里的矮个子夫妇，还有carminative【笑】，说是一个悲剧它抖了太多机灵，说是satire又有点意料之外的伤感，很难归类但观感还不错的书，有点子自成一派的味道……然而听的有声书，这个narrator戏实在太多了很难喜欢……
Crome Yellow [Book] Douban
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. 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."