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The second volume is in Koestler’s own words “a typical case history of a member of the educated middle classes of Central Europe in our time.” We see him in Germany, Russia, England, France and Spain, working for the cause he believed in until his eventual break with Communism in 1938. It ends with his escape from Occupied France in 1940 to England, where he found a new home. An epilogue brings the story up to 1953.
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About the Author
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 (1932-38) he was an active member of the Communist Party, and was captured by Franco's troops in the Spanish Civil War and imprisoned under sentence of death. In 1940 he came to England, adopting the language with his first book, Scum of the Earth. His publications manifest a wide range of political, scientific and literary interests, and include Darkness at Noon, Arrow in the Blue and The Invisible Writing. He died in 1983 by suicide, having frequently expressed a belief in the right to euthanasia.
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"A brilliant and deeply moving record of a whole generation as well as of an individual" * Observer * "The cumulative effect is overwhelming" * New Republic * "He is a journalist of ideas on a very high level - the kind we lack and need in this country - who functions midway between the realms of art and of society, but whose function is indispensable, if thought is to be part of culture" * Saturday Review *
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- PublisherMacMillan Publishing Company
- Publication date1970
- ISBN 10 0025651900
- ISBN 13 9780025651906
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
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[0-02-565190-0] 1978. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good dust jacket. 526pp. Pale green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to the spine and debossed cover device. Map. The spine is lightly edgeworn at the top and bottom, the dust jacket is lightly edgeworn and has a closed tear that has been repaired with clear tape. "The Invisible Writing is the dramatic second volume in Arthur Koestler's superb autobiographical quartet - a personal and prophetic history of the critical years between 1931 and 1953 in which Koestler traces his spiritual and intellectual evolution from a youthful anti-Nazi in search of an identity to maturity by way of a devastating, ironic and ultimately disillusioning encounter with communism". Biography of Arthur Koestler. Time Period 1932-1940. Vol. 2 The Invisible Writing. Locale: Central Asia; Soviet Russia; Spain. (Biography, Autobiography, Communism, Exile Literature, Stalinism). Seller Inventory # 153738
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