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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有人說:“多一個人讀喬治奧威爾,世上就少一個獨裁者。” 我認為:“多一個人讀阿瑟庫斯勒,世上就多一個奧威爾。” 書的正版我找瞭很久,遺憾的是董樂山先生在198幾年譯的中文版實在是找不到瞭,隻能在亞馬遜上淘到一本英文版的。雖然花瞭150多大洋,書也是非常普通的簡裝版...
評分 評分共産主義運動中的慘劇,我不想多說,庫斯勒說的很多瞭。 可是,不讓它齣版,就可以掩蓋過去的罪惡瞭嗎?就是和諧瞭嗎?你們錯瞭,大錯特錯瞭,提舊事者失一目,忘舊事者失雙目。你們為瞭所謂高尚的理由,偷偷摸摸地,做這些見不得人的事,殊不知,不在沉默中爆發,就在沉默中滅...
評分好吧,所有的極權國傢都相似,那套自我辯解——終極目標正確與當下功利權宜的說辭也一個模子所齣,在那個群體中,不能說魯巴蕭夫和格列金誰更可悲,也許真的如同魯巴蕭夫意欲使自己的過往努力顯得有價值因此寜願將自己逼到那樣屈辱的境地那樣,真的有很多的“老一輩”在被清算...
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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.
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評分Sympathy is a fatal disaster for a revolutionary!!
評分Sympathy is a fatal disaster for a revolutionary!!
評分第一本讀起來很暢快的!臨刑前的對話真唏噓。人參與這種荒誕劇並演完一生,好值得憤而罷演,推桌而起
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