Darkness at Noon (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Arthur Koestler
- First Published: 1940
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1930’s
- Setting: Russia
- Principal Characters: Nicholas Rubashov, Ivanov, Gletkin, Michael Bogrov, Kieffer (Hare-Lip), Number
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Communism or communists, Prisoners, Prisons, 1930’s, Capital punishment, Russia or Russian people
- Locales: Russia
The Story:
Nicholas Rubashov, former Commissar of the People and once a power in the party, was in prison. Arrested at his lodgings in the middle of the night, he had been taken secretly to cell 404, which bore his name on a card just above the spy hole. His cell was located in an isolation block for political suspects.
At seven o’clock in the morning, Rubashov was awakened by a bugle, but he did not get up. Soon he heard sounds in the corridor. He imagined that someone was to be tortured, and he dreaded hearing the first screams of pain. When the footsteps reached his...
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