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ARROW IN THE BLUE (353 pp.]-Arthur Koestler-Mocm...
...conservative estimate," writes Arthur Koestler on an early page of his autobiography, "three out of every four people whom I knew before I was thirty were subsequently killed in Spain, or hounded to death at Dachau, or gassed at Belsen or deported to Russia, or liquidated in Russia...
...most of them stereotyped. Hardly a week passes without its book about Soviet slave camps. But El Campesino's story, direct, terse and without presumptions to literary grace, has the persuasiveness of crushing truth. Though it has none of the art of Darkness at Noon, it belongs beside Koestler's book on the shelf set aside for the literature of human shame...
...Comrade Rubashov in Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon...
...Kremlin, he alone still affects the plain military tunic and cap Stalin made famous. He has been married twice, first to one of Molotov's secretaries, now to a Moscow actress. He has, like Koestler's Gletkin, no cord to the outside world: he has never set foot on non-Communist soil, never been known to speak to Western newspapermen or Western diplomats. In the few speeches comrade Malenkov has made for public consumption, perhaps the most memorable line is: "Can there be any doubt that a Third World War will become the grave for world capitalism...