Six of the more than 10,000 books published in the U.S. in 1941 stood out in high relief: Darkness at Noon ($2), Arthur Koestler’s coldly incandescent novel about the ultimate moral dilemma of Russian ...
DARKNESS AT NOON—Arthur Koestler —Macmillan ($2.50). Of Author Arthur Koestler little is definitely known. (He is said to be in London.) But he has written the most exciting novel of the season. As a ...
DIALOGUE WITH DEATH—Arthur Koestler—Macmillan ($2). In Darkness At Noon (TIME, ) Arthur Koestler made, of a man in a Soviet prison cell, one of the great symbols of humanity in our time.
The Forward: Arthur Koestler Fans Should Brace Themselves For a New ‘Darkness at Noon’
Fans of Arthur Koestler’s 1940 novel “Darkness at Noon,” the formerly communist author’s allegorical take on Stalin’s increasingly totalitarian grip on the USSR, are in for a shock. According to the ...
Arthur Koestler Fans Should Brace Themselves For a New ‘Darkness at Noon’
Arthur Koestler’s “Darkness at Noon” was one of the most influential novels of the 20th century, and the 20th century would have been a better century had it been more influential still. Yet until now ...
History is a brutal sieve. Arthur Koestler is remembered now—if at all—for writing Darkness at Noon, a hand grenade of a novel tossed at Joseph Stalin’s Kremlin. Those 200 pages are all we retain of ...
It is clear in Michael Scammell’s comprehensive biography that Arthur Koestler was an exceedingly difficult and troubled man. Even those who revered Koestler as the author of “Darkness at Noon,” his ...
OF LIVING English novelists I like Koestler the best.”J his was said to me recently by a friend in France, where Darkness at Noon has, in translation, enjoyed a sensational success. “He is wonderfully ...