Darkness at Noon
Arthur Koestler
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 re-lives 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, Darkness At Noon 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..."
种类:
年:
2006
出版社:
Scribner
语言:
english
页:
224
ISBN 10:
8499087434
ISBN 13:
9788499087436
ISBN:
D2584B6E-9723-4C71-A051-64633C408BA9
文件:
AZW3 , 331 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2006
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