Oct 16, 2008
The Oxford Companion to English Literature | Darkness at Noon
Darkness at Noon,
a novel by
A.
Koestler
, published
1940
, translated from German.
It deals with the arrest, imprisonment, trial, and execution of
N.
S.
Rubashov
in an unnamed dictatorship over which ‘No. 1’ presides.
Koestler
describes
Rubashov
as ‘a synthesis of the lives of a number of men who were victims of the so-called Moscow trials’, and the novel did much to draw attention to the nature of Stalin's regime.
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