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Darkness at noon, [a novel], Arthur Koestler ; translated by Daphne Hardy

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Darkness at noon, [a novel], Arthur Koestler ; translated by Daphne Hardy

Language

eng

Abstract

Darkness at Noon stands as an unequaled fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he re-lives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and human betrayals of a totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance. Almost unbearably vivid in its depiction of one man's solitary agony, Darkness at Noon asks questions about ends and means that have relevance not only for the past but for the perilous present

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Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Darkness at noon

Responsibility statement

Arthur Koestler ; translated by Daphne Hardy

Sub title

[a novel]

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