Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind.(Review)

World Literature Today | January 1, 2001| | Copyright

David Cesarani. Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind. New York. Free Press. 1999. x + 646 pages. $30. ISBN 0-684-86720-6.

IT IS CURIOUS THAT sixty years after the publication of Arthur Koestler's enormously successful Dialogue with Death and his undisputed masterpiece Darkness at Noon -- both works featuring the terror and tyranny of fascism and communism in 1930s Europe -- we already seem to have lost in this age, feebly searching for so-called "sustainable developments" and driven by a stifling "single consciousness," the ability to focus on the essential issues of ...

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