**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
Darkness at Noon
β Scribed by Boehm, Philip;Koestler, Arthur;Scammell, Michael
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 172 KB
- Edition
- Scribner hardcover edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Russia (Federation)--Moscow., Soviet Union,Soviet Union.
- ISBN
- 1439188459
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β¦ Synopsis
The newly discovered lost text of Arthur Koestler's modern masterpiece,Darkness at Noon --t****he haunting portrait of a revolutionary, imprisoned and tortured under totalitarian rule --is now restored and in a completely new translation.
Editor Michael Scammell and translator Philip Boehm bring us a brilliant novel, a remarkable discovery, and a new translation of an international classic.
In print continually since 1940, Darkness at Noon has been translated into over 30 languages and is both a stirring novel and a classic anti-fascist text. What makes its popularity and tenacity even more remarkable is that all existing versions of Darkness at Noon are based on a hastily made English translation of the original German by a novice translator at the outbreak of World War II.
In 2015, Matthias WeΓel stumbled across an entry in the archives of the Zurich Central Library that is a scholar's dream: "Koestler, Arthur....
β¦ Subjects
Soviet Union
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