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Koestler made three trips to Spain during the civil war and on the third occasion he was captured, sentenced to death and imprisoned by the Nationalist forces of General Franco. He was at that time working on behalf of the Comintern and as an agent of the Loyalist Government's official news agency, using for cover accreditation to the British ...
Arthur Koestler CBE (UK: / ˈ k ɜː s t l ər /, US: / ˈ k ɛ s t-/; German:; Hungarian: Kösztler Artúr; 5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was an Austro-Hungarian-born author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest , and was educated in Austria, apart from his early school years.
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Réflexions sur la peine capitale is an essay on the death penalty written before its abolition in France. It was co-signed by two writers, Albert Camus and Arthur Kœstler . The essay delves into the human condition from an existentialist perspective.
Koestler's contribution appeared on 2 October 1969. Sins of Omission: While Six Million Died by Arthur D. More. Reviewed in the Observer, 7 April 1968. The Future if any: The Biological Time-Bomb by Gordon Rattray Taylor. Reviewed in the Observer, 21 April 1968. Going Down the Drain : The Doomsday Book by Gordon Rattray Taylor.
Koestler had taken an ill-considered decision to stay at Málaga in southern Spain when the Republican forces withdrew from it. He had only narrowly escaped arrest by Franco's army on his previous sojourn into Nationalist territory, when on his second day in Nationalist-held Seville he was recognised by a former colleague of his from Ullstein's in Berlin, who knew that Koestler was a Communist ...
Stop number three in murder tours: the Menendez house. 1989, Lyle and Erik murdered their parents. #Menendezbrothers #LAmurders. A post shared by Danica M. (@dani.lugosi) on Nov 13, 2015 at 10 ...
The Call-Girls: A Tragi-Comedy with Prologue and Epilogue (ISBN 0-09-112550-2) is 1972 a novel by Hungarian-British author Arthur Koestler. [1] Its plot tells the story of a group of academic scientists struggling to understand the human tendency towards self-destruction, while the group members gradually become more suspicious and aggressive towards each other.