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...diplomats understand that to classify Gromyko it is necessary to realize that he is not only a new statesman, but a prototype of a new race of men. In Darkness at Noon, writing of those bullheaded, bull-minded men who grew up under the Revolution's rod, Novelist Arthur Koestler described that new race...
...offered not money but space: a place to be as highbrow as they like, to talk to their own kind and never mind being intelligible to the uninitiated. The result has been sometimes stuffy, oftentimes overreaching, but usually stimulating. Such first-rate writers and critics as Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, George Orwell, Albert Camus, Andre Gide and Edmund Wilson have sold Partisan Review articles for a token $2 a page. Poets T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Karl Shapiro and Robert Lowell were paid $3 a page. Thanks to Publisher-to-be Dowling, Partisan Review will now offer...
...separate the "scientific sociology" from the ruthless, end-justifying-means idolatry of the state that goes with it? Author Miller does not say. He is sufficiently aware of the problem to quote Novelist Arthur Koestler's classic damnation, in Darkness at Noon, of the Marxist revolutionary...
...Room on the Route is the best novel on Russia since Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, though Koestler's book is still much the better. Written by a 40-year-old Australian, A Room on the Route has many qualities of traditional Russian fiction, including some that Russian writers have not recently dared to indulge. No Russian could write so honestly, and so far no Western visitor to Russia during the war has drawn such good fiction from his experience. Blunden was in Moscow for 14 months in 1942-43 as a correspondent for the Sydney Daily...
...Koestler's only hope, more a counsel of despair than a hope, is for a West European federation-including France, the Low Countries, a de-Francoed Spain, Italy, the Rhine province, the Saar (which France, without Big Three permission, in effect separated from Germany last fortnight with a customs cordon). "This," wrote Koestler, "is not the occasion to discuss the merits and demerits of such a plan; I mention it merely to avoid closing on a note of despair. For so desperate has the situation in Europe become that pessimism, like defeatism in times of war, is no longer...