Darkness at Noon (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Arthur Koestler
- First Published: 1940
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1930’s
- Setting: Russia
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Communism or communists, Prisoners, Prisons, 1930’s, Capital punishment, Russia or Russian people
- Locales: Russia
Characters Discussed
Nikolai Rubashov (nih-koh-LI rew-BAH-shof), a political prisoner, a former commissar once politically powerful but now in disfavor and accused of crimes he did not commit. He broods over his actual deeds for the Party and attempts to rationalize them. After publicly denouncing his supposed errors, he is executed. He resembles such old Bolsheviks as Leon Trotsky and Nikolay Bukharin, who wielded ruthless power for supposedly good ends in the early years of the Soviet Union and who were then liquidated by an even more ruthless dictator, Joseph Stalin.
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