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Darkness at Noon (German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by Hungarian-born 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 helped to create.
- Arthur Koestler
- 254 pp (Danube edition)
- 1940
- 1940
Dark at Noon (French: L'Œil qui ment, lit. The Eye that Lies) is a 1993 French-Portuguese surrealist fantasy comedy film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. It was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.
- Leonardo De La Fuente, Pierre Bernard Guiremand, Antonio de Cunha Telles
- Jorge Arriagada
Arthur Koestler, Daphne Hardy (Translator) 4.11. 30,744 ratings2,136 reviews. Darkness at Noon is a 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.
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- 1940
- Arthur Koestler
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Darkness at Noon Summary. When Darkness at Noon begins, the protagonist, Nicholas Salmanovitch Rubashov, finds himself having been recently enclosed inside a prison cell, where it seems he knows what will happen to him next. The narration flashes back to a few hours earlier, when Rubashov was awakened from a dream —a recurring dream that he ...
Article History. Darkness at Noon, novel by Arthur Koestler, published in 1940. The action is set during Joseph Stalin ’s purge trials of the 1930s and concerns Nicholas Rubashov, an old-guard Bolshevik who at first denies, then confesses to, crimes that he has not committed.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
24. Sept. 2019 · “Darkness at Noon is a dystopia of the first order. Grounded in reality, the Soviet-style dictatorship depicted by Koestler is as twisted, illogical and terrifying as any science fiction.” Boehm...
26. Dez. 2012 · Darkness in literature: Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler. Koestler's black indictment of Stalin's police state helped to alter the 20th century's intellectual climate. Sadly it's all too...
