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Says one character to another in Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon: "Such peculiar birds as you are found only in the trees of revolution." The Archbishop of York is possibly the most peculiar social revolutionist the world has ever known. It is doubtful whether he thinks of himself as a social revolutionist at all (though, like Cardinal Manning, he might have called himself a "Mosaic Radical...
...Hamlet, which Gide has been working at intermittently for 20 years.* Little magazines translated snatches of anything Gidean they could get hold of. Dozens of university students announced that Gide would be the subject of their Ph.D. theses. In Manhattan's left-wing New Leader, Novelist Arthur Koestler (Darkness at Noon, TIME, May 26, 1941) deplored a similar outbreak of "French Flu" in England, denounced Gide's "esoteric arrogance [and] arrogant spiritualism...
High-ranking among 1943's novels, less by its own accomplishment than because of the mixed quality of the year's fiction, was Arthur Koestler's Arrival and Departure ($2). By no means equal to his Darkness At Noon, Koestler's latest novel was a graphic account of the sufferings of an ex-Communist for whom a sardonic psychoanalyst tries to provide an easy way out of the struggle against Fascism...
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE - Arthur Koestler-Macmillan...
...last they said: "Well, my boy, today we are going to finish with you, one way or the other," his heart leaped with relief. The other details of Peter's torture are even more horrifying. In Arrival and Departure their full savagery is modified by the device Arthur Koestler uses, of having Peter relate them to a psychiatrist who is also a Communist and something of a psychiatric case herself. But they are strong enough even when tempered with psychoanalytic jargon. Arrival and Departure is a far less important book than Koestler's Darkness at Noon, a political...