Easy to see why this novel is routinely referenced along with “1984” and “Brave New World”.
Easy to see why this novel is routinely referenced along with “1984” and “Brave New World”.
https://www.luulit.com/product/darkness-at-noon-audible-audiobook-unabridged/
A fictional portrayal of an aging revolutionary, this novel is a powerful commentary on the nightmare politics of the troubled 20th century. Born in Hungary in 1905, a defector from the Communist Party in 1938, and then arrested in both Spain and France for his political views, Arthur Koestler writes from a wealth of personal experience...
Thanks for the tag @Lcsmcat ! #7days7books day 3.
Seven books that left a deep impression on me and changed me.
@emtobiasz - do you want to play?😀
#cataloging I love the misleading covers of this era.
#RockinMay #BackintheUSSR
I looked on my solitary bookcase for my Russian books. Darkness at noon was a favourite book ive read a few times, there is the usual suspects of dostoyevsky and bulgakov, and the one im reading now courtesy of a litsy recommend.
This is actually my husband's book but the only thing I could find for #BackInTheUSSR. Looks super interesting, set in a Russian jail during Stalin. I may have to move this up to my TBR shelf... #RockInMay @Cinfhen
Satan, on the contrary, is thin, ascetic and a fanatical devotee of logic. He reads Machiavelli, Ignatius of Loyola, Marx and Hegel; he is cold and unmerciful to mankind, out of a kind of mathematical mercifulness. He is damned always to do that which is most repugnant to him: to become a slaughterer, in order to abolish slaughtering, to sacrifice lambs so that no more lambs may be slaughtered...
The enduring moments of torture that Rubashov is subjected to are both horrific and vivid. Based during the time of Stalin's purges in Russia, Rubashov dedicated his life to The Party, which was against Stalin, and it is this same Party that tries him for war crimes throughout the text.