Darkness at Noon
N.S. Rubashov, an old guard Communist, falls victim to an unnamed government; with outstanding psychological insight, Koestler traces his story through arrest, imprisonment and trial in a classic novel which, when first published, famously drew attention to the nature of Stalin's regime.
N.S. Rubashov, an old guard Communist, falls victim to an unnamed government; with outstanding psychological insight, Koestler traces his story through arrest, imprisonment and trial in a classic novel which, when first published, famously drew attention to the nature of Stalin's regime.
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Format: paperback
Publish date: 2005
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 211
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
20th Century,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Russia,
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Nice book about the madness of the purges and the radical logic of the revolutionaries.
A fiercely intelligent examination of the thought behind ruthless totalitarian communism through the account of a former Party Commissioner who is arrested and interrogated by a member of the younger generation, a native of the revolution.It seems to me that Koestler has set out to render a great se...
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...
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