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Arthur Koestler's Darkness at noon / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Bloom's modern critical interpretations
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Koestler, Arthur, 1905-1983. Darkness at noon.
- Koestler, Arthur.
- Moscow Trials, Moscow, Russia, 1936-1937--Historiography.
- Moscow Trials, Moscow, Russia, 1936-1937.
- Totalitarianism and literature.
- Historiography.
- Soviet Union--In literature.
- Soviet Union.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 261 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, [2004]
- Summary:
- Set in the turbulent Soviet Union of the 1930s, Darkness at Noon tells the story of its Jewish hero and protagonist, Nikolai Salmanovich Rubashov. Unjustly accused of treason, Rubashov is forced to endure the nightmare of imprisonment and eventual execution for the crime with which he is charged. Rubashov's tragedy is that of an intellectual insider suddenly made outsider to the party he once supported. Through a series of interrogations by Ivanov, a former comrade in arms, and Gletkin, a young zealot, Rubashov is forced to examine the consequences of his previous adherence to a doctrine dedicated to its own fulfillment at all costs to ethics and freedom.
- Contents:
- The Function of Rubashov's Toothache in Koestler's Darkness at Noon / Annette Edwards Platt 3
- Darkness at Noon and the 'Grammatical Fiction' / Goronwy Rees 15
- Arthur Koestler: On Messiahs and Mutations / Mark Levene 31
- Darkness at Noon / Sidney A. Pearson, Jr. 49
- The Mind on Trial: Darkness at Noon / Mark Levene 65
- Viewpoints and Voices: Serge and Koestler on the Great Terror / W. Marshall 83
- Orwell versus Koestler: Nineteen Eighty-Four as Optimistic Satire / Howard Fink 109
- Darkness at Noon and the Political Novel / Reed B. Merrill 121
- The "Post-Colonialism" of Cold War Discourse / William Pietz 131
- Comment on an Aspect of Pietz's Argument / Anders Stephanson 153
- Eternity in Darkness at Noon and the Consolation of Philosophy / Robert Sutherland 161
- War, 1938-42 / David Cesarani 177
- A Cold War Best-Seller: The Reaction to Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon in France from 1945 to 1950 / Martine Poulain 223.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-245) and index.
- ISBN:
- 079107580X
- OCLC:
- 52160048
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