Born in Budapest in 1905, educated in Vienna, Arthur Koestler immersed himself in the major ideological and social conflicts of his time. A communist during the 1930s, and visitor for a time in the Soviet Union, he became disillusioned with the Party and left it in 1938. Later that year in Spain, he was captured by the Fascist forces under Franco, and sentenced to death. Released through the last-minute intervention of the British government, he went to France where, the following year, he again was arrested for his political views. Released in 1940, he went to England, where he made his home. His novels, reportage, autobiographical works, and political and cultural writings established him as an important commentator on the dilemmas of the 20th century. He died in 1983.
Originally published in 1941, Arthur Koestler's modern masterpiece, "Darkness At Noon, " is a powerful and haunting portrait of a Communist revolutionary caught in the vicious fray of the Moscow show trials of the late 1930s.During Stalin's purges, Nicholas Rubashov, an aging revolutionary, is imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the party he has devoted his life to. Under mounting pressure to confess to crimes he did not commit, Rubashov relives a career that embodies the ironies and betrayals of a revolutionary dictatorship that believes it is an instrument of liberation.A seminal work of twentieth-century literature, "Darkness At Noon" is a penetrating exploration of the moral danger inherent in a system that is willing to enforce its beliefs by any means necessary.
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1、 D是曆史上革命思想的化身。曆史不知有什麼顧忌和猶豫。它永恒地、不知錯誤地流嚮前麵的目標。每次轉摺都留下它夾帶的汙泥和淹死的人的屍體。曆史知道自己的進程。他不會犯錯誤。對曆史沒有絕對信任的人,不配留在D的隊伍的。 2、 我們的原則都是對的,但是我們的結果卻錯瞭...
評分我們都對這麼一類特殊的審判,或者說錶演不陌生:有關庭審的前前後後的一切,早就有瞭安排好的劇本。法庭的場景布起,演員各司其職。公訴人慷慨陳詞,審判員英明神武,被告人與其說是做自我辯護,還不如說是做自我控訴,因為他能否保全性命,能否免於酷刑,或確保作為交易...
評分 評分 評分1、 D是曆史上革命思想的化身。曆史不知有什麼顧忌和猶豫。它永恒地、不知錯誤地流嚮前麵的目標。每次轉摺都留下它夾帶的汙泥和淹死的人的屍體。曆史知道自己的進程。他不會犯錯誤。對曆史沒有絕對信任的人,不配留在D的隊伍的。 2、 我們的原則都是對的,但是我們的結果卻錯瞭...
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評分Six and a half steps to the door, whence they must come to fetch him, six and a half steps to the window, behind which night was falling.
評分哲學傢大多不懂政治,而政治傢關於真理和信仰的自我拷問是政治生涯的終結,自我毀滅的開始。自欺是一座高大的紙塔,脆弱承受不瞭懷疑論的一星星燃燼。Rubashov的哲思寫得極其飄逸,其背後的深度足以撼動整個共産主義體係的根基。難怪內部封殺。
評分因為作者哲思插入太多以至於閱讀體驗非常一言難盡難以入戲……。……文字是很漂亮的,觀點也可以說很深刻的,但作為小說整體覺得不行,不行!
評分需要重讀的書
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