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...LONGING (362 pp.)-Arthur Koestler-Macmlllan...
...biggest thing that ever happened to Novelist Arthur Koestler was becoming a Communist in 1931. The second biggest was his divorce from Communism in 1938. As with a lot of other ex-Communist writers, this cyclic experience is his whole stock in trade. From it came the one first-rate book of the dozen he has written, Darkness at Noon (TIME...
...book so much better than any of his others that it hardly seems to have been written by the same man; a book that has already become a classic in the modern tragedy of the godless humanitarian.* His latest novel, The Age of Longing, makes it plain that Arthur Koestler is one of those unhappy intellectuals obviously in need of a moral and spiritual boss. When he forswore Communism, he was left spiritually homeless, stranded between the Yogi and the Commissar, and believing in neither...
...theatregoer will find a broad and varied fare this weekend, ranging from such long run favorites as South Pacific and Kiss Me Kate to one-week old adaptation of Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon...
Claude Raines has drawn impressive notices for his performance in Darkness At Noon, Sidney Kingley's adaptation of Koestler's novel of the same name. Tickets are scarce for this tragedy but it is certainly worth investigation. (Alvin...