2008, ISBN: 9789068828863

Viva Books Private Limited, 2007. First edition. Paperback. New. Set in the turbulent Soviet Union of the 1930s, Darkness at Noon tells the story of its Jewish hero and protagonist, Nil… More...

Viva Books Private Limited, 2007. First edition. Paperback. New. Set in the turbulent Soviet Union of the 1930s, Darkness at Noon tells the story of its Jewish hero and protagonist, Nilolai 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 consequence of his previous adherence to a doctrine dedicated to its own fulfillment at all costs to ethics and freedom. It might be said that the dilemma in which the hero of Darkness at Noon found himself was one that had become distressingly familiar to its author, Arthur Koestler, in his own life; and though in Rubashov’s case it acquires a political, and a philosophical, significance which transcends any purely personal experience, the autobiographical element in the novel is a very strong one and no doubt contributes to the intensity with which it is written. VIVA MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS presents the best current criticism on the most widely read and studied poems, novels and dramas of the Western world, from Oedipus Rex and the Iliad to such modern and contemporary works as William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Don Delillo’s White Noise. Contents: Introduction • The Function of Rubashov’s Toothache in Koestler’s Darkness at Noon • Darkness at Noon and the ‘Grammatical Fiction’ • Authur Koestler: On Messiahs and Mutations • Darkness at Noon • The Mind on Trial: Darkness at Noon • Viewpoints and Voices: Serge and Koestler on the Great Terror • Orwell versus Koestler: Nineteen Eighty-Four as Optimistic Satire • Darkness at Non and the Political Novel • The "Post-Colonialism" of Cold War Discourse • Common on an Aspect of Pietz’s Argument • Eternity in Darkness at Noon and the Consolation of Philosophy • War, 1938–42 • A Cold War Best-Seller: The Reaction to Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon in France from 1945 to 1950 • Chronology • Contributors Printed Pages: 270., Viva Books Private Limited, 2007, 6, [Written in Dutch -- no translation in printed book] I have translated the covers to this in {English}: Front cover: Murder Stories. The Leiden Bic Pen Store, the drama behind the peanut butter murder and 20 other reconstructions. Back cover: Murder Stories: The Liedse Bic pen case, the liquidation of Thomas van der Bijl, the senseless death of Joes Kloppenburg, the first murder of IJburg, poison murders in the city canal: with an eye for detail, Gerlof Leistra, crime reporter of Elsevier, known in a compelling style and less known murder cases. This bundle contains the 22 best reconstructions from Elsevier. What drove the young dentist from Hoofddorp who took their three children together with his wife? Why did environmental officer Chris van de Werken die? Who was behind the robbery of the lively restaurant owner Willem Wijker from Bergen? Where is the lust killer of the Frisian teenager Marianne Vaatstra?, Elsevier, 2008, 3<

2008, ISBN: 9789068828863

[Written in Dutch -- no translation in printed book] I have translated the covers to this in {English}: Front cover: Murder Stories. The Leiden Bic Pen Store, the drama behind the peanut … More...

[Written in Dutch -- no translation in printed book] I have translated the covers to this in {English}: Front cover: Murder Stories. The Leiden Bic Pen Store, the drama behind the peanut butter murder and 20 other reconstructions. Back cover: Murder Stories: The Liedse Bic pen case, the liquidation of Thomas van der Bijl, the senseless death of Joes Kloppenburg, the first murder of IJburg, poison murders in the city canal: with an eye for detail, Gerlof Leistra, crime reporter of Elsevier, known in a compelling style and less known murder cases. This bundle contains the 22 best reconstructions from Elsevier. What drove the young dentist from Hoofddorp who took their three children together with his wife? Why did environmental officer Chris van de Werken die? Who was behind the robbery of the lively restaurant owner Willem Wijker from Bergen? Where is the lust killer of the Frisian teenager Marianne Vaatstra?, Elsevier, 2008, 3<