Dialogue with Death by Arthur Koestler

Dialogue with Death by Arthur Koestler

In 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, Arthur Koestler, a German exile writing for a British newspaper, was arrested by Nationalist forces in Malaga. He was then sentenced to execution and spent every day awaiting death--only to be released three months later under pressure from the British government. Out of this experience, Koestler wrote Darkness at Noon, his most acclaimed work in the United States, about a man arrested and executed in a Communist prison.

Dialogue with Death is Koestler's riveting account of the fall of Malaga to rebel forces, his surreal arrest, and his three months facing death from a prison cell. Despite the harrowing circumstances, Koestler manages to convey the stress of uncertainty, fear, and deprivation of human contact with the keen eye of a reporter.

Arthur Koestler (1905-1983), a Hungarian-British author and journalist, was deeply involved in the great ideological and social disputes of his era. In 1931, Koestler joined the German Communist Party, which he left in 1938 after becoming disillusioned with Stalinism. He garnered international acclaim for his anti-totalitarian novel Darkness at Noon, which he published in 1940. Koestler advocated for a variety of political causes throughout his life. His novels, reporting, autobiographies, and political and cultural essays positioned him as a key commentator on the twentieth-century's difficulties.

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ISBN 13	9780226449616
ISBN 10	0226449610
Title	Dialogue with Death
Author	Arthur Koestler
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The University of Chicago Press
Year published	2011-04-01
Number of pages	232
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