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Arthur Koestler | | Birth Date: |
September 5, 1905 | | Death Date: |
March 3, 1983 | | Place of Birth: |
Budapest, Hungary | | Place of Death: |
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 Biography of Arthur Koestler
1,206 words, approx. 4 pages
 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 Communism to the West. The son of a successful... summary from source:
Biography of Arthur Koestler
6,557 words, approx. 22 pages
 Whoever 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 controversies they helped to spawn. These controversies were both... 
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 Arthur Koestler Quotes
2,614 words, approx. 9 pages
Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983) was a Hungarian-Jewish novelist, philosopher, and political activist who lived much of his life in England. Sourced Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. The glory of science is not in a truth more...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Arthur Koestler Information
3,996 words, approx. 13 pages
Arthur Koestler CBE (September 5, 1905, Budapest – March 3, 1983, London) was a Hungarian polymath who became a naturalized British subject. He wrote journalism, novels, social philosophy, and books on scientific subjects. In 1931, he joined the...
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 Quadrant Koestler, Orwell and the inversion of logic.(George Orwell, Arthur Koestler)
05/01/2006: 3,788 words, approx. 13 pages IN THIS ARTICLE I intend to discuss the epistemological inversion that develops in the mentality of Rubashov, the main character in Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon. And I will show how it is connected to the logical construction of the basic legal principle... summary from source:
Partisan Review Arthur Koestler: the consolations of communism.(Critical Essay)
03/22/2003: 7,063 words, approx. 24 pages ARTHUR KOESTLER WRITES in his first volume of memoirs, Arrow in the Blue, that he would gladly exchange a hundred readers from his own time for just one of the next century. That's an intriguing trade for any writer, and Koestler probably meant... summary from source:
 AP News Agents' revolt shakes talent agency
9/25/2007: 537 words, approx. 2 pagesTheatrical 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 from PFD Group Ltd., a leading international literary and talent agency, could be a...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by V. S. Pritchett
2,184 words, approx. 7 pages
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 doing and rush to document the latest convulsion. In this fashion, he has run through the political infections of our generation…. How much in his writing is personal experience and how much is an intense imaginative identification with the people he describes is not important; or rather, only the identification is important. It is passiona... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Stephen Spender
1,015 words, approx. 3 pages
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 unerring instinct homing toward the place of trouble which will affect us all very soon. His environment is the whirlpool, and his creativity explodes out of violence. His virtue, however, is not just restlessness and love of the vortex of contemporary history. It lies in his capacity for entering into what I can only call the conscience of contemp...
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