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Darkness at Noon (German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by Austrian-Hungarian-born novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940.His best known work, it is the tale of Rubashov, an Old Bolshevik who is arrested, imprisoned, and tried for treason against the government that he helped to create.
Arthur Koestler's novel Darkness at Noon (1944) gives a haunting, if at least partly fictitious, portrayal of the atmosphere surrounding this [citation needed] trial. It tells of an old Bolshevik's last weeks trying to come to terms with the unintended results of the revolution he helped create.
In January 1951, a dramatised version of Darkness at Noon, by Sidney Kingsley, opened in New York. It won the New York Drama Critics Award. Koestler donated all his royalties from the play to a fund he had set up to help struggling authors, the Fund for Intellectual Freedom (FIF). [50]
The first volume, The Gladiators, is about the subversion of the Spartacus revolt, and the second, Darkness at Noon, is the celebrated novel about the Soviet show trials. Arrival and Departure was Koestler's first full-length work in English, The Gladiators and Darkness at Noon having originally been written in German. It is often considered to ...
Darkness at Noon is a novel by Arthur Koestler. Darkness at Noon may also refer to: Darkness at Noon (A Hawk and a Hacksaw album), 2005; Darkness at Noon (Richard H. Kirk album), 1999; Mahiru no ankoku (Darkness in the Noon), a 1956 Japanese film
Gill links the opening line of the song to the title of Arthur Koestler's bleak novel Darkness at Noon, set in the Great Stalinist purge of 1938 in Soviet Russia. For Gill, Dylan is suggesting that the human spirit can be cast into darkness by the dead hand of communism as well as by American capitalism. [10]
Alongside Orwell's Animal Farm, Darkness at Noon has been described by historians as an example of a work which, in the words of Cold War historian Tony Shaw, has been "plundered by official Cold War propagandists," and one of many examples of "literature which also acquired privileged status in the West with at least some help from Western ...
Kingsley continued writing for the theater late into his career, adapting Arthur Koestler's novel Darkness at Noon for the stage in 1951, and writing Lunatics and Lovers in 1954 and Night Life in 1962. In addition to his work for the stage, Kingsley wrote a number of scripts for Hollywood productions, mostly based on his own work. He later also ...