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Koestler : the literary and political odyssey of a twentieth-century skeptic / Michael Scammell

データ種別 図書
1st ed
出版者 New York : Random House
出版年 c2009
本文言語 英語
大きさ xxi, 689 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports., geneal. table ; 25 cm

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(本館)4F一般書架(洋)
930.28/Ko 22 101147152
9780394576305

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一般注記 Includes bibliographical references (p. [579]-585) and index
Summary: The first authorized biography of one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals of the twentieth century, based on new research and full access to its subject's papers. Best known as the creator of the classic anti-Communist novel Darkness at Noon, Koestler is here revealed as a man whose personal life was as astonishing as his literary accomplishments. The young Hungarian Jew whose experience of anti-Semitism and devotion to Zionism provoked him to move to Palestine; the foreign correspondent who risked his life from the North Pole to Franco's Spain; the committed Communist for whom the brutal truth of Stalin's show trials inspired the angry novel that became an instant classic in 1940; the escape from occupied France by joining the Foreign Legion and his bluffing his way illegally to England, where his controversial 1943 novel Arrival and Departure was the first to portray Hitler's Final Solution. Scammell also gives a full account of the author's voluminous writings, making the case
著者標目 *Scammell, Michael
件 名 LCSH:Koestler, Arthur, 1905-1983
LCSH:Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography  全ての件名で検索
LCSH:Zionists -- Biography  全ての件名で検索
LCSH:Political activists -- Great Britain -- Biography  全ての件名で検索
LCSH:Philosophers -- Great Britain -- Biography  全ての件名で検索
LCSH:Journalists -- Great Britain -- Biography  全ての件名で検索
分 類 NDC8:930.28
DC22:828/.91209
DC22:B
巻冊次 ISBN:9780394576305
書誌ID BB00231027
ISBN 9780394576305
NCID BB02216067

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