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“앤틱 헤이(Antic Hay)”는 올더스 헉슬리(Aldous Huxley)가 1923년에 처음 출간한 소설이다. 런던을 배경으로 제1차 세계대전 이후 지식인과 보헤미안 집단의 삶을 그린 작품이다.

이야기는 당시의 사회적 규범과 기대에 환멸을 느낀 청년 Theodore Gumbril Jr.를 중심으로 전개된다. 그는 점점 피상적이고 부조리해 보이는 세상에서 성취와 의미를 찾으며 자기 발견의 여정을 시작한다. 그 과정에서 그는 각자 자신의 실존적 딜레마를 안고 고심하는 다양한 기이한 인물들을 만나게 된다.
"Antic Hay"는 종종 전후 환멸과 "잃어버린 세대"의 목적 없음에 대한 풍자다. 재치 있는 대화와 다채로운 캐릭터를 통해 Huxley는 환멸, 물질주의, 급변하는 세상에서 진정한 인간 관계 추구라는 주제를 다루고 있다.
이 소설은 날카로운 사회적 논평과 1920년대의 문화적, 지적 환경에 대한 헉슬리의 예리한 관찰로 유명하다.


“Antic Hay” is a novel first published by Aldous Huxley in 1923. Set in London, this work depicts the lives of intellectuals and bohemian groups after World War I.

The story revolves around Theodore Gumbril Jr., a young man who is disillusioned with the social norms and expectations of his time. He begins a journey of self-discovery, seeking fulfillment and meaning in a world that seems increasingly superficial and absurd. Along the way, he meets a variety of strange characters, each struggling with their own existential dilemma.
"Antic Hay" is often a satire on post-war disillusionment and the aimlessness of the "Lost Generation". Through witty dialogue and colorful characters, Huxley addresses themes of disillusionment, materialism, and the search for genuine human connection in a rapidly changing world.
The novel is notable for its sharp social commentary and Huxley's keen observations of the cultural and intellectual environment of the 1920s.

Summary
Gumbril, Theodore Gumbril Junior, B.A. Oxon., sat in his oaken stall on the north side of the School Chapel and wondered, as he listened through the uneasy silence of half a thousand schoolboys to the First Lesson, pondered, as he looked up at the vast window opposite, all blue and jaundiced and bloody with nineteenth-century glass, speculated in his rapid and rambling way about the existence and the nature of God.
Standing in front of the spread brass eagle and fortified in his convictions by the sixth chapter of Deuteronomy (for this first Sunday of term was the Fifth after Easter), the Reverend Pelvey could speak of these things with an enviable certainty. “Hear, O Israel,” he was booming out over the top of the portentous Book: “the Lord our God is one Lord.”

Contents
CHAPTER I. One Lord; Mr. Pelvey knew; he had studied theology
CHAPTER II. Gumbril senior occupied a tall
CHAPTER III. “Mister Gumbril!” Surprise was mingled with delight
CHAPTER IV. Lypiatt had a habit, which some of his friends found
CHAPTER V. One after another, they engaged themselves
CHAPTER VI. It was between Whitefield Street and the Tottenham
CHAPTER VII. It was Press Day
CHAPTER VIII. Critically, in the glasses of Mr. Bojanus’s fitting-room
CHAPTER IX. Fan-shaped, blond, mounted on gauze
CHAPTER X. “There’s money in it,”
CHAPTER XI. Gumbril had spent the afternoon at Bloxam Gardens
CHAPTER XII. “You? Is it you?” She seemed doubtful
CHAPTER XIII. In spite of the taxi
CHAPTER XIV. Mrs. Viveash descended the steps into King Street
CHAPTER XV. They were playing that latest novelty
CHAPTER XVI. The blackamoors had left the platform at
CHAPTER XVII. The two o’clock snorted out of Charing Cross
CHAPTER XVIII. Two hundred and thirteen Sloane Street
CHAPTER XIX. After leaving Mr. Mercaptan
CHAPTER XX. Zoe ended the discussion by driving half an inch
CHAPTER XXI. “Well,” said Gumbril, “here I am again.”
CHAPTER XXII. Shearwater sat on his stationary bicycle