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...chilling better half of Invitation to Moscow, a book of vivid wartime reminiscences by one of Poland's top lawyers and political men. Taut, spare, sharply observed and recorded, it is the most convincing account yet of that indigenous Soviet phenomenon, the phony confession. Beside it, even Arthur Koestler's brilliant Darkness at Noon bulges a bit at the suppositional seams...
Sidney Kingsley's adaptation of the novel by Arthur Koestler is magnificently clear in presenting its ideas--that the revolutionary dreams of Communism have no reality today, and that those who disregard the means for the end are inevitably crushed by their own logic. The setting in which these ideas are presented is a fitting one: a prison filed with men who are doomed, and with the guards who are less men than automatons...
Sidney Kingsley's drama of a discarded Communist official recently won the New York drama critics' award as the best play of the year. It is based on Arthur Koestler's novel of the same name...
...Longing, by Arthur Koestler. Agnostic Hydie and the commissar; a Koestler allegory of East, West and Hydie's slow enlightenment. No Darkness at Noon (TIME...
...Longing, by Arthur Koestler. Agnostic Hydie and the commissar; a Koestler allegory of East, West and Hydie's slow enlightenment. No Darkness at Noon (TIME...