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Yellow Krom. Jester's Round Dance

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Yellow Krom. Jester's Round Dance
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"Crome Yellow" is Aldous Huxley's literary debut. The plot is seemingly simple and straightforward: a young poet visits friends at their country estate. However, this is merely the backdrop against which the profound emotional and psychological drama of the legendary "Lost Generation" unfolds—a drama of unspoken words, unfulfilled hopes, and imperfect actions. A drama of tragic disconnection and conflict between the sensual and the rational, between emotion and thought, between ideal and reality...
And once again, Huxley returns to the "Lost Generation" in his novel "The Jester's Round Dance," not as a poet celebrating it, but as a satirist exposing its spiritual impotence and creative impotence, its egotistical self-obsession, and its basic inability to cope with everyday life. Artists who have forgotten how to create, philosophers who have forgotten how to think, women who have lost the meaning of life, and men who live in pursuit of adrenaline – Huxley knows his characters well, and this knowledge makes him especially merciless.
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