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...TRAIL OF THE DINOSAUR (253 pp.) -Arthur Koestler-Macm/7/on...
...written something or other against Communism. "Well, young man, I am glad that at last you have come round to see reason," snuffled the old member. "I myself knew 25 years ago what Bolshevism means, and it's never too late to repent." The younger character was Arthur Koestler, now 50, and he found the old man's attitude highly irritating. U.S. readers who, unlike Arthur Koestler, have never been Communists, may share the old gentleman's complacency; but if they do, they will be missing a bet from one of the world's liveliest intellectual...
...Unpopular Side. Like Socrates, Koestler is a man with the disconcerting habit of following arguments where they lead. This latest collection of his essays (more notable: The Yogi and the Commissar} reveals that Koestler is still looking for an adjudicator in the long debate in which, as in The Right to Say No, he habitually takes the con. People pro-any-thing get short shrift from Con-Man Koestler. Yet Americans should find themselves stimulated by this tough controversialist. Some examples of Koestler's talent for taking the unpopular side of an argument: ¶ In Judah...
Invite Andre Malraux, Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, and a few others to after-dinner coffee some evening and let them talk about what they want to (which, more often than not, is themselves); make up your mind to sit back and listen. Such a social conclave is sure to be successful. With the appearance of The Anchor Review, we now see the formula, usually restricted to Viennese coffee houses and the like, applied to public print...
...Koestler, a writer with a happy facility of spouting forth on virtually any subject, has taken time from pre-occupations with love, the world's wars, and his next full-length literary production, to dash off a careful and perceptive analysis of "The Anatomy of Snobbery." His is an eminently successful execution of a faintly satirical, quasi-serious discussion which the authors of current Holiday articles would do well to read. Silone's contribution, clearly the most informal of the collection, takes the form of an interview. He remains confused about basic questions surrounding an earthquake tragedy in his native...