Darkness at noon

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  • Author: Koestler, Arthur
    Contributor:

    Hardy, Daphne

    Summary:

    Fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he re-lives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and human betrayals of a totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance.

    Subject(s): Fiction
    Original Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2006 c1941
    Language(s): English

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Hardy, Daphne

Abstract

Fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he re-lives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and human betrayals of a totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance.

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Fiction
Publisher (Source)

New York : Scribner, 2006 c1941

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9781416540267

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