Bricks to Babel, a selection from 50 years of his writings, chosen and with new commentary by the author, Arthur Koestler
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Bricks to Babel, a selection from 50 years of his writings, chosen and with new commentary by the author, Arthur Koestler
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Bibliography: pages [687]-688
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non fiction
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Bricks to Babel
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Arthur Koestler
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a selection from 50 years of his writings, chosen and with new commentary by the author
Summary
Offers an arresting overview of Koestler's extraordinary career, organized and annotated by the author. Included is a sample of each kind of his prolific writing--novels, plays, polemics, treatises--providing a mosaic of one mind's lifework
Table Of Contents
In search of Utopia:- Promised land -- Land of promise -- The God that failed -- Fighting the Cold War -- Birth of a nation. In search of a synthesis:- The act of creation -- Outline of a theory -- Applying the theory -- The urge to self-destruction -- Campaigns and causes -- How to fail as a mystic -- A glance through the keyhole
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