Koestler, Arthur (Vol. 6) - Koestler, Arthur 1905–
Koestler, Arthur 1905–
Koestler, a Hungarian-born British novelist and essayist, has been called "a brilliant dealer in ideas and a masterful dialectitian." He has said that all of his novels deal with "the problem of Ends and Means": "whether, or to what extent, and in what circumstances, a noble end justifies the use of ignoble means." Koestler's abiding concern with the "two cultures" found its most impressive expression in The Act of Creation, the extraordinary book which was called "the most ambitious work in the life sciences since Darwin's epochal Origin of Species." (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
I have always been inclined to attribute to Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon an almost unique significance among the literary works of our time; not only because it has done more than any other novel to determine people's attitudes to contemporary history but because in a strange way the book has...
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