Biography EssayWhoever would undertake the formidable task of writing the intellectual history of the twentieth century would be well advised to include in it the works of Arthur Koestler and the cont...
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Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) authored one of the 20th century's great political novels, Darkness at Noon, as well as a number of other fictional works and essay collections which explained the ethos of...
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Critical Essay by V. S. Pritchett
Koestler's gift is bold and fresh, but it is theatrical. He is the declaiming and compelling actor. No one has known better than he when to drop what he is do...
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Critical Essay by Stephen Spender
Ever since his birth [Arthur Koestler] has lived as it were in the maelstrom of contemporary history, turning in a continual vortex even as he wrote, and with an une...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
AN OVERDUE MEMORIAL (The Wall Street Journal, New York)
Considering the enormity of what it commemorates, the Memorial
to the Victims of ...
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Theatrical and literary agents are taking leading roles in a corporate drama in London, resigning one after another from a major agency and threatening to take their clients with them.The exodus fr...
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Arthur Koestler
Critical Essay by V. S. Pritchett
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