Nice book about the madness of the purges and the radical logic of the revolutionaries.
bookshelves: published-1940, slavic, classic, fraudio, holocaust-genocide, lifestyles-deathstyles, philosophy, psychology, recreational-homicide, teh-brillianz, translation Read in November, 2009 Unabridged and read by Frank Muller. Highly Kafkaesque in tone insomuch as it's bleak, dark humoure...
A recent re-reading of Darkness At Noon didn't live up to my memory of it from many years ago. The prison descriptions were excellent, in a claustrophobic way, and the inner workings of Rubashov's mind in an effort to keep his sanity were riveting indeed. But the long political discourses about "t...
Darkness at Noon is one of a class of novels, mostly prison and interrogation things, in which all is just so hopelessly restrictive and cramped - so lacking in even the smallest victories.So, it's not fun. And it's not particularly new.Koestler, though, was an early-adopter communist who had suffer...
A powerful book about the Stalinist purges during the 1930's. The main character, Comrade Rubashov is one of the diehard members of the party, a Communist since his youth who has been decorated many times for his devotion to the party and Mother Russia. Now in his 50's he has been arrested and is ...
Unabridged and read by Frank Muller. Highly Kafkaesque in tone insomuch as it's bleak, dark humoured, absurd and ultimately lethal; highly Dosteoveskyish in the mental ramblings and philosophysing of a murderer. Did the system make him a murderer? What do they say? "Justification is worse than the o...
i don't like this book as much as other people seem to (especially according to great book lists etc.) but i've enjoyed reading it so far.
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