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...pronounced him insane, ordered him committed to an asylum. After a series of special treatments, the man confessed that the Czar was right, he was indeed insane-a story that might, with a twist or two, have come straight out of the Moscow treason trials or out of Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon...
...Longing, by Arthur Koestler. Agnostic Hydie and the commissar; a Koestler allegory of East, West and Hy-die's slow enlightenment. No Darkness at Noon (TIME...
...Burned Bramble belongs in the select company of those novels which have best explained why and how the good Communists become dead ones (others : Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, Victor Serge's The Case of Comrade Tulayev). It is the work of Manes Sperber, a slight, talkative ex-professor of psychology in German universities, who now lives in Paris. Like many a Communist intellectual, he had a blind spot for Stalin's big lie until the Moscow trials of old Communist heroes. In 1937 he broke with the party...
...David Bowen '51 and Theodore L. Gershung '54 will head the cast of the Harvard Theatre Group's production of "Darkness at Noon," the Sidney Kingsley adaptation of Arthur Koestler's novel, which was chosen yesterday...
...Koestler shows clearly, albeit, not most effectively, how European intellectuals feel themselves trapped in a void between the freedom-stifling regime of the Communists and the naive bewilderment of the Americans. He does nothing to resolve the dilemma. Some say he personally is turning to mysticism. For the rest of the Europeans, perhaps an intelligent and serious restatement of the American credo would be of help...