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The God That Failed is a 1949 collection of six essays by Louis Fischer, André Gide, Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Stephen Spender, and Richard Wright. [1] The common theme of the essays is the authors' disillusionment with and abandonment of communism .
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Books by Arthur Koestler" ... The God that Failed; H. The Heel of Achilles: Essays 1968–1973 ...
Arthur Koestler’s Fiction and the Genre of the Novel: Rubashov and Beyond. ISBN 978-1-7936-2225-9. Weßel, Matthias, 2021. Arthur Koestler: Die Genese eines Exilschriftstellers. ISBN 978-3-631-86154-7. Prinz, Elisabeth, 2011. Im Körper des Souveräns: Politische Krankheitsmetaphern bei Arthur Koestler. ISBN 978-3-7003-2005-0.
Louis Fischer (29 February 1896 – 15 January 1970) was an American journalist. Among his works were a contribution to the ex-communist treatise The God that Failed (1949), The Life of Mahatma Gandhi (1950), basis for the Academy Award-winning film Gandhi (1982), as well as a Life of Lenin, which won the 1965 National Book Award in History and Biography.
The book was in published in 1984, one year after Koestler's suicide. The book is divided into seven main chapters, of which the first of is a biography and the other six critical essays on each of Koestler's six novels, his stories and his play Twilight Bar. The book, which measures 200 mm x 120 mm (small format) was published by Frederick ...
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Koestler's fundamental idea is that any creative act is a bisociation (not mere association) of two (or more) apparently incompatible frames of thought. [1] Employing a spatial metaphor, Koestler calls such frames of thought matrices : "any ability, habit, or skill, any pattern of ordered behaviour governed by a 'code' of fixed rules."
The Invisible Writing: The Second Volume Of An Autobiography, 1932-40 (1954) is a book by Arthur Koestler. [1]It follows on from Arrow in the Blue, published two years earlier, and which described his life from his birth in 1905, to 1931, and deals with a much shorter period, a mere eight years (as opposed to the twenty six of the previous volume).