Darkness at Noon - Brossura

Koestler, Arthur

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0553265954 ISBN 13: 9780553265958

Casa editrice: Bantam Books, 1993

Riassunto

An aging Bolshevik falls victim to the revolutionary dictatorship he has helped create

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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. It is--as the  Times Literary Supplement has declared--"A  remarkable book, a grimly fascinating  interpretation of the logic of the Russian Revolution, indeed  of all revolutionary dictatorships, and at the  same time a tense and subtly intellectualized  drama..."

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Darkness at Noon (from the German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by the Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940. His best-known work tells the tale of Rubashov, a Bolshevik 1917 revolutionary who is cast out, imprisoned and tried for treason by the Soviet government he'd helped create.

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• Editore: Bantam Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0553265954
• ISBN 13: 9780553265958
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224