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 busine...

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 bitter...

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Since it is in the grip of a fixed idea, Darkness at Noon has little of the intellectual fluidity, the richness of absorbed life, the complex interplay between emotion and ideology, that distinguishes the political novel at its best. Though the subject of Koestler's book can be seen as the increasingly problematic nature of all modern politics, it seldom yields itself to the problematic as a mode of feeling or observation. Can one say that a certain kind of commitment to the problematic may itself be...

Explores the Ideology of Communism in Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon. Describes how Koestler's novel depicts the Communist Revolution and the changes that took place after Stalin and the "new" generation came into power by overthrowing the Fathers of the Revolution, those who belonged to the "old" generation.

Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon depicts the fallacious logic of a totalitarian regime through the experiences of Nicolas Salmanovitch Rubashov. Rubashov had fought in the revolution and was once part of the Central Committee of the Party, but he is arrested on charges of instigating attempted assassinations of No. 1, and for taking part in oppositional, counter-revolutionary activities, and is sent to a Soviet prison.

Discusses the novel Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler. Examines how communism plays a major part in the plot of the novel, which is set at the time of the Soviet Union, during the 1930's- after the Russian Revolution- when communism was at it's peak.