Darkness at Noon

from br77rino

This is a great companion piece to George Orwell's "1984." Where Orwell took us into the experience of a common worker of the big bad totalitarian state, Koestler takes us into the experience of one of the true believers, Nicolas Rubashov, who is arrested for "counter-revolutionary" activities af...

from akblanchard

For forty years, the revolutionary Rubashov had worked to advance the cause of the Party, but now he is imprisoned on false charges and forced to confess to crimes against the State. He's tired of playing the State's "game" and resolves to stand firm, but when his "Neanderthaler" inquisitor Gletk...

from xuebi

Darkness at Noon is Arthur Koestler's most famous work and his most powerful.The story of Rubashov, a revolutionary and once key figure in the unnamed country's government, who is now imprisoned and on trial for treason is a powerful anti-totalitarian novel. The narrator's reflections on his past...

from jonbrammer

What surprised me about Koestler's depiction of Stalin's purges in the 30's was the lack of brutality. I expected the story to be more harrowing - the details of the interrogations, physical and psychological torture, etc. But the moving part of the story is Rubashov and his attempts to justify h...

from wewerefiction

Darkness at Noon, first published in 1941, tells the tale of Rubashov, an old guard and revolutionary who is tried for treason by the government he once helped create. Almost the entire tale is told while the character is in prison for his accusations; the only time we leave the prison is while v...