Arrival and Departure - Brossura

Koestler, Arthur

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099515415 ISBN 13: 9780099515418

Casa editrice: Vintage Classics, 1999

Riassunto

This was the third novel of Arthur Koestler's trilogy on ends and means - the other two are THE GLADIATORS and DARKNESS AT NOON - and the first he wrote in English. The central theme is the conflict between morality and expediency, and in this novel Koestler worked it out in terms of individual psychology. Peter Slavek starts out as a brave young revolutionary, but suffers a breakdown. On the analyst's couch he is made to discover, in Koestler's own words, 'that his crusading zeal was derived from unconscious guilt'.

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Descrizione del libro:

The third novel of Arthur Koestler's trilogy.

L'autore:

Arthur Koestler was born in Budapest in 1905. He attended the university of Vienna before working as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Berlin and Paris. For six years he was an active member of the Communist Party, and was captured by Franco in the Spanish Civil War. In 1940 he came to England. He died in 1983 by suicide, having frequently expressed a belief in the right to euthanasia.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Vintage Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0099515415
• ISBN 13: 9780099515418
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192