Darkness at Noon

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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 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 relives 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, it 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. Read Darkness at Noon – kino-fada.fr This is a diseased century.We diagnosed the disease and its causes with microscopic exactness, but wherever we applied the healing knife a new sore appeared Our will was hard and pure, we should have been loved by the people But they hate us Why are we so odious and detested We brought you truth, and in our mouth it sounded a lie We brought you freedom, and it looks in our hands like a whip We brought you the living life, and where our voices is heard the trees wither and there is a rustli This is a diseased century.We diagnosed the disease and its causes with microscopic exactness, but wherever we applied the healing knife a new sore appeared Our will was hard and pure, we should have been loved by the people But they hate us Why are we so odious and detested We brought you truth, and in our mouth it sounded a lie We brought you freedom, and it looks in our hands like a whip We brought you the living life, and where our voices is ...Oh, how I do love those Russians Plus I m hoping reading this will make me feel better about my own life, which lately feels like a grim, freezing Stalinist dystopia of gray hopeless days It could be worse, right I ve got a lot of work to do tonight, and somehow I thought this would be an excellent time to go back and review Darkness at Noon. MUCH bigger priority than getting work done, wouldn t you say Well, so, okay, this book was a little bit bleak Yeah, not the feel good date nov Oh, how I do love those Russians Plus I m hoping reading this will make me feel better about my own life, which lately feels like a grim, freezing Stalinist dystopia of gray hopeless days It could be worse, right I ve got a lot of work to do tonight, and somehow I thought this would be an excellent time to go back and review Darkness at Noon. MUCH bigger priority than getting work done, wouldn t you say Well, so, okay, this book was a little bit bleak Yeah, not the feel good date novel of the year, not this one Darkness at Noon conveys the brutality and claustrophobia of the prison cell and interrogation room, and you kind of do feel like you re there, toothache and hunger and all, and okay let s be honest it isn t much fun.This st...The back of my 1972 copy of Darkness at Noon claims that it is one of the few books written in this epoch which will survive it To me, Darkness at Noon seems like a book on the verge of being forgotten It s almost never on the shelves in bookstores or libraries, and I rarely hear it discussed I don t think it s taught in schools,...Sonnenfinsternis Darkness at Noon, c1940, Arthur KoestlerDarkness at Noon German Sonnenfinsternis is a novel by Hungarian born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940 His best known work, it is the tale of Rubashov, an Old Bolshevik who is arrested, imprisoned, and tried for treason against the government that he had hel...An Announcement Concerning the Class Traitor NotAfter a scrupulously fair trial in thePeople s Court, Comrade Not has been found guilty of posting an ideologically unsound review To protect other comrades from the possibility of being seduced into thought crime, the review has now been removed from the community areahas also offered Not a course of reeducation Their representatives arrived promptly at 4 am yesterday morning, and courteously but firmly helped Not to understand An Announcement Concerning the Class Traitor NotAfter a scrupulously fair trial in thePeople s Court, Comrade Not has been found guilty of posting an ideologically unsound review To protect other comrades from the possibility of being seduced into thought crime, the review has now been removed from the community areahas also offered Not a course of reeducation Their representatives arrived promptly at 4 am yesterday m...I need reminders from time to time, like those in this novel, of psychological and moral atrocities, of the hyper viciousness of a pack lead by unstable maniacs and sociopaths Darkness at Noon is a chilling novel about Nicholas Salmanovitch Rubashov, an old Bolshevik, formerly Commissar of the People, and a leader in the 1917 Russian REVolution, who is imprisoned during Stalin s purges after he speaks out against the tyranny of his former comrades These former...At the end of 1984 Winston Smith asks O Brien why the party acts the way it does His answer always pissed me off Power for power s sake That s not an explanation That s a tautological cop out It s like Orwell was content to warn us about what a totalitarian state would look like without exploringdeeply why it got there Thanks George Darkness at Noon explores this questionfully and in ahonest way According to Koestler the Soviets were basically a bunch of Raskolnikovs At the end of 1984 Winston Smith asks O Brien why the party acts the way it does His answer always pissed me off Power for power s sake That s not an explanation That s a tautological cop out It s like Orwell was content to warn us about what a totalitarian state would look like without exploringdeeply why it got there Thanks George Darkness at Noon explores this questionfully and in ahonest way According to Koestler the Soviets were basically a bunch of Raskolnikovs They believed it right to commit atrocious acts in the name of an idea, namely scientific socialism They believed the people of their own time would not accept this idea because they have been shaped by socioeconomic conditions to consider morality which leads inevitably to the status quo, which is slavery but future generations would see the rightness of their ac... Darkness at Noon is one of the classics of anti totalitarian literature, often mentioned alongside novels such as Brave New World and 1984 While both these novels are fictions based on an idea of a totalitarian state, Darkness at Noon is a clear allegory of Soviet Russia during the 1930 s the time of the Moscow show trials and the Great Purge.Although the author openly acknowledges this in the preface, the country in which the book is set is never named though he includes specific details r Darkness at Noon is one of the classics of anti totalitarian literature, often mentioned alongside novels such as Brave New World and 1984 While both these novels are fictions based on an idea of a totalitarian state, Darkness at Noon is a clear allegory of Soviet Russia during the 1930 s the time of the Moscow show trials and the Great Purge.Although the author openly acknowledges this in the preface, the country in which the book is set is never named though he includes specific details regarding it, so there never is any doubt Character are less people than ideas and themes they represent the main protagonist, Rubashov, is an amalgamation of all of the Old Bolsheviks who were persecuted by Stalin in the 30 s The plot focuses on Rubashov s imprisonment in an unnamed facility, his interaction w...A best friend with different literary tastes than myself recommended a book An historian buff he reported this psychological, political rendered piece of fiction as his all time favorite A friendship of many years deserves its many sacrifices A bit of time seemed small Maybe many of us here at GR have been in this situation A small amount of time sacrificed does not only mean plowing instead of the grace of reading but also not getting the time for the next book we have been waiting to rea A best friend with different literary tastes than myself recommended a book An historian buff he reported this psychological, political rendered piece of fiction as his all time favorite A friendship of many years deserves its many sacrifices A bit of time seemed small Maybe many of us here at GR have been in this situation A small amount of time sacrificed does not only mean plowing instead of the grace of reading but also not getting the tim... 37402 380 406 380 402 402 402380 402 124 45 4616 22 23 2

Darkness at Noon
  • English
  • 17 October 2018
  • Mass Market Paperback
  • 216 pages
  • 0553265954
  • Arthur Koestler
  • Darkness at Noon