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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.
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.
Written during the middle of World War II, Arrival and Departure reflects Koestler's own plight as a Hungarian refugee. Like Koestler, the main character, Peter Slavek, is a former member of the Communist party. [2] He escapes to "Neutralia," a neutral country based on Portugal, where Koestler himself had gone, and flees from there.
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 ...
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."
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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 was in published in 1984, one year after Koestler's suicide.