- Published: 3 January 1995
- ISBN: 9780099424918
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224
- RRP: $40.00
Darkness at Noon
- Published: 3 January 1995
- ISBN: 9780099424918
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224
- RRP: $40.00
A remarkable book, a grimly fascinating interpretation of...all revolutionary dictatorships, and at the same time a tense and subtly intellectualised drama of prison psychology
Times Literary Supplement
[Darkness At Noon] is written from terrible experience. From knowledge of the men whose struggles of mind and body he describes. Apart from its sociological importance, it is written with a subtlety and an economy which class it as great literature. I have read it twice without feeling that I have learned more than half of what it has to offer me- Koestler approaches the problem of ends and means, of love and truth and social organisation, through the thoughts of an old Bolshevik, Rubashov, as he awaits death in a GPU prison
New Statesman
Along with Animal Farm and 1984, this book formed part of the essential bookshelf of those intellectuals who repudiated their early illusions about the Soviet Union
Christopher Hitchens, The Week
It brilliantly portrays the chilling tyranny of Soviet Communism
Sandy Gall, The Week
One of the few books written in this epoch which will survive it.
New Statesman