Darkness At Noon

Darkness At Noon

by Arthur Koestler
Publisher: Bantam Books
Mass market paperback, 216 pages
Current Retail Price: $6.99
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Darkness At Noon stands as an unequaled fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he re-lives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and human betrayals of a totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance. Almost unbearably vivid in its depiction of one man's solitary agony, Darkness At Noon asks questions about ends and means that have relevance not only for the past but for the perilous present.

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FLAWS: Violence/torture, profanity
Summary: A former Communist revolutionary is imprisoned and systematically tortured and interrogated by the very Party he gave his life for.

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