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2. Arthur Koestler (book) - Wikipedia

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   Arthur Koestler is a book by Mark Levene about the life and work of Hungarian-British writer Arthur Koestler. 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 ...

3. Arthur Koestler - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. The Gladiators (novel) - Wikipedia

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   This is a common theme in Koestler's work and life. Koestler uses his portrayal of the original slave revolt to examine the experience of the 20th-century political left in Europe following the rise of a Communist government in the Soviet Union. He published it on the brink of World War II. Originally written in German, the novel was translated ...

5. Category:Books by Arthur Koestler - Wikipedia

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   Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Books by Arthur Koestler" The following 16 pages are in this category, out ...

6. The Act of Creation - Wikipedia

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   The Act of Creation is divided into two books. In the first book, Koestler proposes a global theory of creative activity encompassing humour, scientific inquiry, and art. 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]

7. The Call-Girls - Wikipedia

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   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.

8. Scum of the Earth (book) - Wikipedia

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   Scum of the Earth is a memoir by Anglo-Hungarian writer Arthur Koestler in which he describes his life in France during 1939-1940, the chaos that prevailed in France just prior to the outbreak of the Second World War and France’s collapse, his tribulations, internment in a concentration camp, and eventual escape to England, via North Africa and Portugal.

9. The Roots of Coincidence - Wikipedia

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   Koestler is referenced several times in the work, and in the movie novelization by Steve Moore. Koestler's ideas had previously made their way into the Dr. Manhattan issues of Moore's and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen. It also played a significant role in Episode 4 ("Entangled") of Series X of Red Dwarf, to explain the cause of apparent coincidences ...