Author : ARTHUR KOESTELERS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
DARKNESS AT NOON
ARTHUR KOESTELERS
Koestler
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Koestler
Michael Scammell
Author : Michael Scammell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781588369017
Koestler by Michael Scammell Pdf
From award-winning author Michael Scammell comes a monumental achievement: the first authorized biography of Arthur Koestler, one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals of the twentieth century. Over a decade in the making, and based on new research and full access to its subject’s papers, Koestler is the definitive account of this fascinating and polarizing figure. Though best known as the creator of the classic anti-Communist novel Darkness at Noon, Koestler is here revealed as much more–a man whose personal life was as astonishing as his literary accomplishments. Koestler portrays the anguished youth of a boy raised in Budapest by a possessive and mercurial mother and an erratic father, marked for life by a forced operation performed without anesthesia when he was five, growing up feeling unloved and unprotected. Here is the young man whose experience of anti-Semitism and devotion to Zionism provoked him to move to Palestine; the foreign correspondent who risked his life from the North Pole to Franco’s Spain, where he was imprisoned and sentenced to death; the committed Communist for whom the brutal truth of Stalin’s show trials inspired the superb and angry novel that became an instant classic in 1940. Scammell also provides new details of Koestler’s amazing World War II adventures, including his escape from occupied France by joining the Foreign Legion and his bluffing his way illegally to England, where his controversial novel Arrival and Departure, published in 1943, was the first to portray Hitler’s Final Solution. Without sentimentality, Scammell explores Koestler’s turbulent private life: his drug use, his manic depression, the frenetic womanizing that doomed his three marriages and led to an accusation of rape that posthumously tainted his reputation, and his startling suicide while fatally ill in 1983–an act shared by his healthy third wife, Cynthia–rendered unforgettably as part of his dark and disturbing legacy. Featuring cameos of famous friends and colleagues including Langston Hughes, George Orwell, and Albert Camus, Koestler gives a full account of the author’s voluminous writings, making the case that the autobiographies and essays are fit to stand beside Darkness at Noon as works of lasting literary value. Koestler adds up to an indelible portrait of this brilliant, unpredictable, and talented writer, once memorably described as “one third blackguard, one third lunatic, and one third genius.”
The Act of Creation
Arthur Koestler
Author : Arthur Koestler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
ISBN : 1939438985
The Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler Pdf
"First published by Hutchinson & Co. 1964"--Page 6.
Scum of the Earth
Arthur Koestler
Author : Arthur Koestler
Publisher : Eland Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political prisoners
ISBN : 0907871496
Scum of the Earth by Arthur Koestler Pdf
A recent edition of Arthur Koestler's gripping tale of arrest, imprisonment, and subsequent escape to London from Nazi-occupied France.
Arthur Koestler
Edward Saunders
Author : Edward Saunders
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780237633
Arthur Koestler by Edward Saunders Pdf
Born in Budapest in 1905, Arthur Koestler was a pivotal European writer and intellectual who inspired, provoked, and intrigued in equal measure. Koestler wrote enduring works of reportage and memoir, but he is most famous for his political novel Darkness at Noon, which received widespread international acclaim. In Arthur Koestler, Edward Saunders offers a fresh and clear-eyed account of the life and work of an enigmatic, challenging writer who continues to polarize opinion today. Saunders sketches Koestler as a leading documentarian of some of the key moments in twentieth-century European history, showing the remarkable ways that he was able to stage himself as a witness to them. Saunders explores Koestler’s struggle with his Jewish identity, outlines his ideas on the theory of science and the ways he tried to imagine the future of science and humankind, and directly engages with the controversial claims of sexual violence that have emerged in the years following Koestler’s suicide. Differentiating the life Koestler led from the story he wanted to tell about it and various ways the public has influenced his reputation after his death, this book offers a balanced portrait of a vibrant figure in twentieth-century arts and letters.
Arthur Koestler
David Cesarani
Author : David Cesarani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSC:32106015480848
Arthur Koestler by David Cesarani Pdf
Arthur Koestler, best known for his world-famous novel Darkness at Noon, stands as a cultural beacon in the post-1945 world. Along with Sartre, Camus and Orwell, he helped to shape the ideas of today. This major reassessment, based on groundbreaking and comprehensive research, sets Koestler's life and thoughts against the tumultuous century he chronicled and explores fully for the first time the continuing drama of his private life as a lover, a husband and a Jew. David Cesarani paints an explosive portrait of Koestler that bridges the gulf separating public and private life, contrasting the work of a genius against the backdrop of his tormented soul and brutal private life. In England, Cesarani's revelations led to the removal of Koestler's bust at the University of Edinburgh, so strong were the feelings roused by his dissection of Koestler as a thinker and as a man. A central European Jew born in 1905, Koestler was molded by his times. Uprooted by war and revolution and hounded by prejudice, he struggled to make sense of a world on the edge of apocalypse. His search for meaning, identity and belonging swept him up in the raging ideological torrents of his times -- Zionism, Communism, anti-Communism and both hard scientific and esoteric mystical pursuits -- and culminated in an idiosyncratic and deeply personal ideological position that has confused and eluded critics and commentators. Equally restless in his personal relationships, Koestler made and broke friendships and marriages. His violent affairs with women were legendary, but until now the shocking details of his private life were hidden from view by loyal friends and obscured by the Olympian prose of his autobiographicalwriting. Cesarani is the first to make unrestricted use of Koestler's private papers. He also draws on previously secret documents held by the KGB and FBI, which expose the depth of Koestler's involvement in the Communist Party and, later, his relations with the CIA. Once a Communist, Koestler eventually rejected Marxism and led the intellectual counterattack that culminated in the fall of the Berlin Wall. His speculations on human nature and the future of mankind in the atomic age were stamped upon a generation that lived in the shadow of the bomb. But alongside his brilliance and charm was a darker side, fully plumbed here for the first time, which led ultimately to the tragic dual suicide with his third wife, Cynthia, in 1983. With Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind David Cesarani has ensured Koestler's place in the pantheon of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century as surely as his forceful, provocative and groundbreaking study is guaranteed to reignite the controversy that swirled around Koestler in his life and his death, in his work and his actions.
Arthur Koestler’s Fiction and the Genre of the Novel
Zénó Vernyik
Author : Zénó Vernyik
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793622266
Arthur Koestler’s Fiction and the Genre of the Novel by Zénó Vernyik Pdf
Featuring a selection of brand new essays by a group of accomplished scholars, Arthur Koestler's Fiction and the Genre of the Novel covers all of Koestler's novels published in his lifetime, the first book to attempt this in English since Mark Levene's Arthur Koestler, published thirty-seven years ago. The team of contributors, with research backgrounds in history, political science, religious studies, law, linguistics and journalism besides literature, offers a truly multidisciplinary take on how Koestler's novels utilize, and at times transcend, the genre of the novel, and argues for their enduring relevance and appeal in the twenty-first century, inviting the reader to revisit and reassess them. With the topics of Koestler's novels including terrorism, massive migration, espionage, rape trauma, war trauma, the crisis of faith, propaganda, fake news and the role and responsibility of intellectuals in major international crises, as the volume aims to show, these texts are just as topical today, as they were at the time of their publication.
A Study Guide for Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon"
Gale, Cengage Learning
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410343680
A Study Guide for Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf
A Study Guide for Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
The Ghost in the Machine
Arthur Koestler
Author : Arthur Koestler
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0140191925
The Ghost in the Machine by Arthur Koestler Pdf
An examination of the human impulse towards self-destruction suggests that in the course of human evolution, a pathological split between emotion and reason developed
The Roots of Coincidence
Arthur Koestler
Author : Arthur Koestler
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Extrasensory perception.
ISBN : 0394719344
The Roots of Coincidence by Arthur Koestler Pdf
The author examines recent developments in parapsychological research and explains their implications for physicists
Dialogue with Death
Arthur Koestler
Author : Arthur Koestler
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446546031
Dialogue with Death by Arthur Koestler Pdf
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Reflections on Hanging
Arthur Koestler
Author : Arthur Koestler
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780820369747
Reflections on Hanging by Arthur Koestler Pdf
Reflections on Hanging is a searing indictment of capital punishment, inspired by its author’s own time in the shadow of a firing squad. During the Spanish Civil War, Arthur Koestler was held by the Franco regime as a political prisoner, and condemned to death. He was freed, but only after months of witnessing the fates of less-fortunate inmates. That experience informs every page of the book, which was first published in England in 1956, and followed in 1957 by this American edition. As Koestler ranges across the history of capital punishment in Britain (with a focus on hanging), he looks at notable cases and rulings, and portrays politicians, judges, lawyers, scholars, clergymen, doctors, police, jailers, prisoners, and others involved in the long debate over the justness and effectiveness of the death penalty. In Britain, Reflections on Hanging was part of a concerted, ultimately successful effort to abolish the death penalty. At that time, in the forty-eight United States, capital punishment was sanctioned in forty-two of them, with hanging still practiced in five. This edition includes a preface and afterword written especially for the 1957 American edition. The preface makes the book relevant to readers in the U.S.; the afterword overviews the modern-day history of abolitionist legislation in the British Parliament. Reflections on Hanging is relentless, biting, and unsparing in its details of botched and unjust executions. It is a classic work of advocacy for some of society’s most defenseless members, a critique of capital punishment that is still widely cited, and an enduring work that presaged such contemporary problems as the sensationalism of crime, the wrongful condemnation of the innocent and mentally ill, the callousness of penal systems, and the use of fear to control a citizenry.
The Lotus and the Robot
Arthur Koestler
Author : Arthur Koestler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Civilization
ISBN : UVA:X000493248
The Lotus and the Robot by Arthur Koestler Pdf
Promise and Fulfilment - Palestine 1917-1949
Arthur Koestler
Author : Arthur Koestler
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781447490029
Promise and Fulfilment - Palestine 1917-1949 by Arthur Koestler Pdf
PROMISE AND FULFILMENT Palestine TO ABRAM AND JASHA WEINSHALL CITIZENS OF ISRAEL AS A TOKEN OF A QUARTER-CENTURY OF FRIENDSHIP ACKNOWLEDGMENTS MY sincere thanks are due to R. H. S. Grossman, M. P., and Messrs. Hamish Hamilton, for permission to use the long extract pp. 102-7 from Grossmans Palestine Mission to a member of the Israeli Foreign Office, who wishes to remain anonymous, for per mission to print his Report from Jerusalem pp. 234-8 to Mr. George Pape, Librarian of the Public Information Office in Tel Aviv, and Dr. G. Pollack of the Israeli Ministry of Finance, for valuable research work and to Miss Daphne Wood ward, for helping with the proofs. A. K. PREFACE THIS book consists of three parts, Background , Close-up and Perspective . The first part is a survey of the develop ments which led to the foundation of the State of Israel. It lays no claim to historical completeness, and is written from a specific angle which stresses the part played by irrational forces and emotive bia
The Thirteenth Tribe
Arthur Koestler
Author : Arthur Koestler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1939438187
The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthur Koestler Pdf
This book traces the history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power in Eastern Europe, which in the Dark Ages became converted to Judaism. Khazaria was finally wiped out by the forces of Genghis Khan, but evidence indicates that the Khazars themselves migrated to Poland and formed the cradle of Western Jewry. To the general reader the Khazars, who flourished from the 7th to 11th century, may seem infinitely remote today. Yet they have a close and unexpected bearing on our world, which emerges as Koestler recounts the fascinating history of the ancient Khazar Empire. At about the time that Charlemagne was Emperor in the West. The Khazars' sway extended from the Black Sea to the Caspian, from the Caucasus to the Volga, and they were instrumental in stopping the Muslim onslaught against Byzantium, the eastern jaw of the gigantic pincer movement that in the West swept across northern Africa and into Spain. Thereafter the Khazars found themselves in a precarious position between the two major world powers: the Eastern Roman Empire in Byzantium and the triumphant followers of Mohammed. As Koestler points out, the Khazars were the Third World of their day. They chose a surprising method of resisting both the Western pressure to become Christian and the Eastern to adopt Islam. Rejecting both, they converted to Judaism. Mr Koestler speculates about the ultimate faith of the Khazars and their impact on the racial composition and social heritage of modern Jewry. He produces a large body of meticulously detailed research.
