Darkness at noon
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.
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- Full title :Darkness at noon / Arthur Koestler. Transl. by Daphne Hardy.
Summary
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.
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- Publication Date:2005.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Vintage
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2005.
The Physical Object
- Description:211 Seiten ; : 20 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0099424916, 9780099424918
- oclc:ocn914901631
- Dewey Decimal:833.912
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