– Det er skrevet mange bøker om alle ofrene for Stalinismen, men denne boken hever seg blant de aller beste. Koestler selv var ivrig kommunist, men ble desillusjonert etter et besøk i det forjettede land. Etter dette besøket skrev han denne boken. Hele handlingen foregår i det dystre fengslet vår hovedperson sitter i. Vi får gjennom hans tanker noen tilbakeblikk i hans liv, og får vite hvorfor ting gikk som de gikk. Stemningen er dyster og mørk hele tiden, og vi vet fra første stund hvordan dette kommer til å gå. Boken er en skarp kritikk til kommunismens umenneskelige syn, og hvordan et samfunn perverteres på grunn av en gal despot og den frykten han sprer. Denne boken fortjener mer omtale enn det den har fått, en av de mest velskrevene og dystre bøkene jeg har lest på lenge.
Darkness At Noon
«[Darkness At Noon] is written from terrible experience. From knowledge of the men whose struggles of mind and body he describes. Apart from its sociological importance, it is written with a subtlety and an economy which class it as great literature. I have read it twice without feeling that I have learned more than half of what it has to offer me- Koestler approaches the problem of ends and means, of love and truth and social organisation, through the thoughts of an old Bolshevik, Rubashov, as he awaits death in a GPU prison»
New Statesman
Darkness at Noon is set in an unnamed country ruled by a totalitarian government. Rubashov, once a powerful player in the regime, finds the tables turned on him when he is arrested and tried for treason. Les mer
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- Forlag
- Vintage Classics
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 224
- ISBN
- 9780099424918
- Utgivelsesår
- 1994
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
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«[Darkness At Noon] is written from terrible experience. From knowledge of the men whose struggles of mind and body he describes. Apart from its sociological importance, it is written with a subtlety and an economy which class it as great literature. I have read it twice without feeling that I have learned more than half of what it has to offer me- Koestler approaches the problem of ends and means, of love and truth and social organisation, through the thoughts of an old Bolshevik, Rubashov, as he awaits death in a GPU prison»
New Statesman
«Along with Animal Farm and 1984, this book formed part of the essential bookshelf of those intellectuals who repudiated their early illusions about the Soviet Union»
Christopher Hitchens, The Week
«A remarkable book, a grimly fascinating interpretation of...all revolutionary dictatorships, and at the same time a tense and subtly intellectualised drama of prison psychology»
Times Literary Supplement