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...skilled prose than searing passion, less by action than ideas. Hungarian-born Author Kovács, a World War II underground fighter and onetime secretary-general of Hungary's National Peasant Party, now works for the Free Europe Committee in New York. Lacking the theoretical brilliance of a Koestler, he nonetheless brings to his grade B Darkness at Noon a fingertip knowledge of the Communist mind in action...
...ways. Some cringingly confessed to being jackals, venal hirelings in the pay of the capitalist enemy. Some went silently to the cellar. Some, like Molotov in his days as Premier, stepped uncomplainingly aside and lived on, even rising to high power again. Some, like the devoted Communists in Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, confessed to others' errors as their last proof of loyalty to the system, and hoped that after their deaths Communist history would thank them for their sacrifice to the cause. But nobody before had ever fallen as Georgy Malenkov, once the presumed heir...
...INVISIBLE WRITING, by Arthur Koestler. The man who wrote Darkresx at Noon describes how it got dark and finally light again: his seven years in the Communist Party, his party travels and chores, his disillusionment, and final escape to sanity. A familiar story, but brilliantly told...
...Invisible Writing, by Arthur Koestler. A brilliant travelogue (the second volume of his autobiography) describing the famous ex-Communist's journey through and out of the Marxist hell (TIME...
...Communism in Guatemala grew strong and tough, it inevitably produced a couple of police chiefs who could have come right out of an Arthur Koestler novel. To Colonels Rogelio Cruz Wer and Jaime Rosenberg fell the duty of directing the final, senseless reign of terror when the anti-Communist revolution last June was toppling their boss, President Jacobo Arbenz. Upon Arbenz' fall, Cruz Wer and Rosenberg escaped in a station wagon to Mexico, first of the regime's big shots to run for safety...