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Darkness at Noon. Sidney Kingsley's effective dramatization of Arthur Koestler's sharp expose of the Moscow trials and the Communist mind (TIME...
This personal dilemma, reflected in his book, is the source of its greatest weakness as a novel. His characters are Koestler-controlled puppets in a grim ideological allegory which takes for granted a war between Communism and the West, preaches the unoriginal warning that to defeat Russia, the West must find a more appealing faith than Marxism. For disillusioned intellectuals of Koestler's type, democracy as a function of liberty is unintelligible, and liberty itself a hopeless unknown...
...Like Koestler when he turned from...
Missing Moral. In all this, the Koestler view of things is made abundantly clear...
...tract whose characters are drawn from an ideological casting bureau. As reporting, it is generally stimulating and occasionally brilliant. The gallery of French intellectuals is particularly well drawn, the futility of their bickering sharply exposed. And no one now writing can get inside the Communist mind with Koestler's sureness. Inside that mind are all the answers. Koestler no longer believes in those answers, but he remembers that when he did believe in them, he was happy. He hugs the cold comfort of democracy ("a half-truth," as he calls it) and tries not to feel nostalgia...