Arrival and Departure

Name: Arrival and Departure
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Author: Arthur Koestler
ISBN: 9781409018773

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Arthur Koestler

Vintage Digital
Paru le : 19/08/2011

This was the third novel of Arthur Koestler's trilogy on ends and means - the other two are THE GLADIATORS and DARKNESS AT NOON - and the first he wrote... > Lire la suite

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This was the third novel of Arthur Koestler's trilogy on ends and means - the other two are THE GLADIATORS and DARKNESS AT NOON - and the first he wrote in English. The central theme is the conflict between morality and expediency, and in this novel Koestler worked it out in terms of individual psychology. Peter Slavek starts out as a brave young revolutionary, but suffers a breakdown. On the analyst's couch he is made to discover, in Koestler's own words, 'that his crusading zeal was derived from unconscious guilt'.

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Date de parution : 19/08/2011
Editeur : Vintage Digital
ISBN : 978-1-4090-1877-3
EAN : 9781409018773
Format : ePub

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Biographie d'Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler was born in Budapest in 1905. He attended the University of Vienna before working as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Berlin and Paris. For six years he was an active member of the Communist Party, and was captured by Franco in the Spanish Civil War. In 1940 he came to England, adopting the language with his first book in English, Scum of the Earth. His publications manifest a wide range of political, scientific and literary interests, and include Darkness at Noon, Arrow in the Blue and The Invisible Writing.
He died in 1983 by suicide, having frequently expressed a belief in the right to euthanasia.