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Arthur Koestler was born in Budapest in 1905. He attended the University of Vienna before working as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Berlin and Paris. For six years he was an active member of the Communist Party, and was captured by Franco in the Spanish Civil War. He was detained in prison three times during his life, in three different countries, and was sentenced to death in Spain in 1936 for espionage, though was later released...

Reflections on Hanging is a searing indictment of capital punishment, inspired by its author's own time in the shadow of a firing squad. During the Spanish Civil War, Arthur Koestler was held by the Franco regime as a political prisoner, and condemned to death. He was freed, but only after months of witnessing the fates of less-fortunate inmates. That experience informs every page of the book, which was first published in England in 1956, and ...

Mosca, anni Trenta. Compito del commissario politico Nicolaj Salmanovic Rubasciov è scoprire gli avversari del regime, interrogarli, punirli. Ma il destino porta anche lui sul banco degli imputati. Rubasciov inizialmente si difende, respinge le accuse, resiste alla tortura. Poi, infallibilmente, capitola. L'indottrinamento di un'ideologia politica vissuta con l'assolutismo di una fede granitica ha la meglio su ogni ragionevolezza, su ogni isti...

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The most adventourous, polymathic - and readable - scientific populariser of the age offers in Janus a summing up of a quarter of a century's study and speculations on the life sciences and their philosophic implications. Koestler has an interesting theme to propose. It is this, the human brain has developed a terrible biological flaw, such that it is working now against the survival of the race. Something has "snapped" inside the brain. It is...

Koestlers weltberühmter Roman über den einstigen Volkskommissar Rubaschow, der den politischen Säuberungen innerhalb seiner eigenen revolutionären Partei zum Opfer fällt und in gnadenlosen Verhören zur Strecke gebracht wird, spielt auf die stalinistischen Schauprozesse der 1930er-Jahre an und deckt die Mechanismen totalitärer und diktatorischer Systeme auf. Der Roman entstand 1939 in Frankreich. Die von Koestlers damaliger Lebensgefährtin ang...

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Arthur Koestlers großer Roman zur Entstehungsphase des heutigen Israels! Arthur Koestler war zweifellos einer der vielseitigsten und engagiertesten Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts. Als Journalist, in England gefeierter Bestsellerautor und politischer Aktivist hat er wie kein Zweiter Grenzen und Extreme ausgelotet. Basierend auf seinen eigenen Erfahrungen in einem Kibbuz schildert er die Geschichte der Gründung einer jüdischen Siedlung in P...

Arthur Koestler war einer der bedeutendsten englischsprachigen Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts. Doch sein erstes Buch, das 1934 auf Deutsch erschien, blieb weitgehend unbekannt und gilt heute als verschollen. Im Reportageband "Von weißen Nächten und roten Tagen" fasste Koestler seine Eindrücke aus zwei Reisen zusammen, die er im Sommer 1931 und im Herbst 1932 tief im Inneren der Sowjetunion unternahm.

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In 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, Arthur Koestler, a German exile writing for a British newspaper, was arrested by Nationalist forces in Malaga. He was then sentenced to execution and spent every day awaiting death--only to be released three months later under pressure from the British government. Out of this experience, Koestler wrote "Darkness at Noon, " his most acclaimed work in the United States, about a man arrested and executed in a...

Encuadernación: Tapa dura con sobrecubierta.Por primera vez en un único volumen las memorias de Arthur Koestler.Las memorias de Arthur Koestler, una de las figuras intelectuales más representativas y sobresalientes del siglo XX, constituyen uno de los testimonios más lúcidos y apasionantes del pasado siglo. El presente volumen reúne, por primera vez, los dos títulos de su autobiografía, una obra indispensable.La primera parte, titulada La flec...

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KRITISCHE KLASSIEKEN 3 "Nacht in de middag" volgens George Orwell Koestlers meesterwerk - begint met de arrestatie door de geheime dienst van Roebasjov, een oude bolsjewiek en ooit één van de Helden der Revolutie. In drie verhoren beschrijft Koestler hoe zijn hoofdpersoon na een pijnlijk zelfonderzoek tenslotte tot het besluit komt om in het openbaar misdaden tegen de partij te erkennen, waarvan hij weet dat hij ze in werkelijkheid nooit bega...

In The Sleepwalkers and The Act of Creation Arthur Koestler provided pioneering studies of scientific discovery and artistic inspiration, the twin pinnacles of human achievement. The Ghost in the Machine looks at the dark side of the coin: our terrible urge to self-destruction... Could the human species be a gigantic evolutionary mistake? To answer that startling question Koestler examines how experts on evolution and psychology all ...

Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) was an extraordinary polymath, writer and political polemicist. His most famous works include the novels Darkness at Noon and Arrival and Departure, his autobiographical writings, including Spanish Testament and Scum of the Earth, and his visionary non-fiction, including The Ghost in the Machine, The Case of the Midwife Toad and The Sleepwalkers.John Gray has been Professor of Politics at Oxford University, Visiting...

Un estudio sobre parapsicología que defiende, en contra de escépticos y contradictores, su carácter científico sobre la base de una comparación de esta ciencia con los últimos descubrimientos de la física.