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Darkness at Noon
AvArthur Koestler
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
139 kr
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A brilliant new translation of Koestler's long-lost original manuscript. A chilling and unforgettable 20th century classic.From a prison cell in an unnamed country run by a totalitarian government Rubashov reflects. Once a powerful player in the regime, mercilessly dispensing with anyone who got in the way of his party’s aims, Rubashov has had the tables turned on him. He has been arrested and he’ll be interrogated, probably tortured and certainly executed.Darkness at Noon is as gripping as a thriller and a seminal work of twentieth-century literature. Published in Great Britain in 1940, it was feted by George Orwell, went on to be translated into thirty languages and is considered the finest work of pre-eminent European master, Arthur Koestler. And yet the novel’s worldwide reputation has, for over seventy years, been based on the first incomplete and inexpert English translation – Koestler’s original manuscript was lost when he fled the German occupation of Paris in 1940.In 2016, a student discovered that long-lost manuscript in a Zurich archive. At last, with the publication of this new translation of the rediscovered original, Koestler’s masterpiece can be experienced afresh and in its entirety for the first time.THE NEW TRANSLATION BY PHILIP BOEHM
Natt klockan tolv på dagen
AvArthur Koestler,Göran Rosenberg
Inbunden, Svenska, 2018
4,2 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(9)
259 kr
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Fängslad på falska grunder, dömd till döden, minns Rubasjov hur han själv angivit människor som sedan försvunnit. I celler intill honom finns forna fiender såväl som vänner och vänners släktingar. Med papper och penna försöker Rubasjov få ihop det akuta dilemmat med sin politiska övertygelse och sina tidigare handlingar. Till sist skriver han under en absurd bekännelse och möter sitt öde. När Arthur Koestler skrev Natt klockan tolv på dagen [1940] låg stora delar av Europa under totalitära regimers stövelhälar. Ofta jämförd med Alexander Solzjenitsyn och George Orwell räknas Natt klockan tolv på dagen till de viktigaste politiska romaner som skrivits. Översatt av Tore Zetterholm och med ett nyskrivet förord av Göran Rosenberg.
ARTHUR KOESTLER [1905-1983] var en brittisk författare med ungersk-judiska rötter. Natt klockan tolv på dagen skrevs på tyska i Paris med titeln Sonnenfinsternis [1940], ett manus som gick förlorat vid hans flykt undan nazisterna. Hans partner, skulptören Daphne Hardys engelska översättning Darkness at Noon [1941] kom att bli en världsklassiker. Romanen behandlar Moskvarättegångarna 1936 1938 och är genom Koestlers förstahandserfarenhet från resor i Sovjet en av de mest inflytelserika skildringarna av Stalintiden.
»Ett antitotalitärt mästerverk.« Per T. Ohlsson, Sydsvenskan
»Grym, fängslande skildring av den ryska revolutionens logik. Intensivt och subtilt intellektuellt drama.« Times Literary Supplement
Sleepwalkers
A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe
AvArthur Koestler
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
192 kr
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Arthur Koestler's extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universeIn this masterly synthesis, Arthur Koestler cuts through the sterile distinction between 'sciences' and 'humanities' to bring to life the whole history of cosmology from the Babylonians to Newton. He shows how the tragic split between science and religion arose and how, in particular, the modern world-view replaced the medieval world-view in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. He also provides vivid and judicious pen-portraits of a string of great scientists and makes clear the role that political bias and unconscious prejudice played in their creativity.
Thirteenth Tribe
The Khazar Empire and its Heritage
AvArthur Koestler
Häftad, Engelska, 1976
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(2)
274 kr
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All original edition. Nothing added, nothing removed. This book traces the history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power in Eastern Europe, which in the Dark Ages became converted to Judaism. Khazaria was finally wiped out by the forces of Genghis Khan, but evidence indicates that the Khazars themselves migrated to Poland and formed the cradle of Western Jewry. To the general reader the Khazars, who flourished from the 7th to 11th century, may seem infinitely remote today. Yet they have a close and unexpected bearing on our world, which emerges as Koestler recounts the fascinating history of the ancient Khazar Empire. At about the time that Charlemagne was Emperor in the West. The Khazars' sway extended from the Black Sea to the Caspian, from the Caucasus to the Volga, and they were instrumental in stopping the Muslim onslaught against Byzantium, the eastern jaw of the gigantic pincer movement that in the West swept across northern Africa and into Spain. Thereafter the Khazars found themselves in a precarious position between the two major world powers: the Eastern Roman Empire in Byzantium and the triumphant followers of Mohammed. As Koestler points out, the Khazars were the Third World of their day. They chose a surprising method of resisting both the Western pressure to become Christian and the Eastern to adopt Islam. Rejecting both, they converted to Judaism. Mr. Koestler speculates about the ultimate faith of the Khazars and their impact on the racial composition and social heritage of modern Jewry. He produces detailed research to support a theory which could make the term 'anti-Semitism' become void of meaning.
Natt klockan tolv på dagen
AvArthur Koestler
Häftad, Svenska, 2015
324 kr
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»Ett antitotalitärt mästerverk.« | Per T. Ohlsson, Sydsvenskan»En grym, fängslande skildring av den ryska revolutionens logik ett intensivt och subtilt intellektuellt drama.« | The Times Literary SupplementFängslad på falska grunder med dödsdomen över sig, minns Rubasjov hur han själv skickat människor till bödlarna, övertygad om att det politiska målet helgar alla medel.I celler intill honom finns forna fiender såväl som vänner och vänners släktingar. En efter en skickas de att torteras eller avrättas. Med papper och penna försöker Rubasjov få ihop det akuta dilemmat med sin politiska övertygelse och sina tidigare handlingar. Till sist skriver han under ett absurt erkännande och möter sitt öde.När Arthur Koestler skrev Natt klockan tolv på dagen [1940] låg stora delar av Europa under totalitära regimers stövelhälar. Som få författare i väst hade han insikt i vad som hände i Stalins Sovjet. Ofta jämförd med Solzjenitsyn och Orwell räknas Natt klockan tolv på dagen till de viktigaste politiska romaner som över huvud taget skrivits.I översättning av Tore Zetterholm och försedd med nyskrivet förord av Göran Rosenberg.ARTHUR KOESTLER [1905 1983] var en brittisk författare med ungersk-judiska rötter. Natt klockan tolv på dagen skrevs på tyska i Paris med titeln Sonnenfinsternis [1940], ett manus som gick förlorat vid hans flykt undan nazisterna. Hans partner, skulptören Daphne Hardys engelska översättning Darkness at Noon [1941] kom att bli en världsklassiker. Romanen behandlar Moskvarättegångarna 1936 1938 och är genom Koestlers förstahandserfarenhet från resor i Sovjet en av de mest inflytelserika skildringarna av Stalintiden.
Act of Creation
AvArthur Koestler
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
475 kr
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Arrival and Departure
AvArthur Koestler
Häftad, Engelska, 1999
175 kr
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This was the third novel of Arthur Koestler's trilogy on ends and means - the other two are THE GLADIATORS and DARKNESS AT NOON - and the first he wrote in English. The central theme is the conflict between morality and expediency, and in this novel Koestler worked it out in terms of individual psychology. Peter Slavek starts out as a brave young revolutionary, but suffers a breakdown. On the analyst's couch he is made to discover, in Koestler's own words, 'that his crusading zeal was derived from unconscious guilt'.
Darkness at Noon
A Novel
AvArthur Koestler
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
269 kr
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The newly discovered lost text of Arthur Koestler’s modern masterpiece, Darkness at Noon—the haunting portrait of a revolutionary, imprisoned and tortured under totalitarian rule—is now restored and in a completely new translation.Editor Michael Scammell and translator Philip Boehm bring us a brilliant novel, a remarkable discovery, and a new translation of an international classic. In print continually since 1940, Darkness at Noon has been translated into over 30 languages and is both a stirring novel and a classic anti-fascist text. What makes its popularity and tenacity even more remarkable is that all existing versions of Darkness at Noon are based on a hastily made English translation of the original German by a novice translator at the outbreak of World War II. In 2015, Matthias Weßel stumbled across an entry in the archives of the Zurich Central Library that is a scholar's dream: “Koestler, Arthur. Rubaschow: Roman. Typoskript, März 1940, 326 pages.” What he had found was Arthur Koestler’s original, complete German manuscript for what would become Darkness at Noon, thought to have been irrevocably lost in the turmoil of the war. With this stunning literary discovery, and a new English translation direct from the primary German manuscript, we can now for the first time read Darkness at Noon as Koestler wrote it. Set in the 1930s at the height of the purge and show trials of a Stalinist Moscow, Darkness at Noon is a haunting portrait of an aging revolutionary, Nicholas Rubashov, who is imprisoned, tortured, and forced through a series of hearings by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he re-lives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and betrayals of a merciless totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance. Koestler’s portrayal of Stalin-era totalitarianism and fascism is as chilling and resonant today as it was in the 1940s and during the Cold War. Rubashov’s plight explores the meaning and value of moral choices, the attractions and dangers of idealism, and the corrosiveness of political corruption. Like The Trial, 1984, and Animal Farm, this is a book you should read as a citizen of the world, wherever you are and wherever you come from.
Darkness At Noon
AvArthur Koestler
Häftad, Engelska, 1994
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
149 kr
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Darkness at Noon is set in an unnamed country ruled by a totalitarian government. Rubashov, once a powerful player in the regime, finds the tables turned on him when he is arrested and tried for treason. His reflections on his previous life and his experiences in prison form the heart of this moving and though-provoking masterpiece.
Invisible Writing
AvArthur Koestler
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
149 kr
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The second volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon.Taken together, Arthur Koestler's volumes of autobiography constitute an unrivalled study of a twentieth-century life. The Invisible Writing picks up where the first volume, Arrow in the Blue, ended, with Koestler joining the Communist Party. This second volume goes on to detail some of the most important, gruelling and electrifying experiences in his life. This book tells of Koestler's travels through Russia and remote parts of Soviet Central Asia and of his life as an exile. It tells of how he survived in Franco's prisons under sentence of death and in concentration camps in Occupied France and ends with his escape in 1940 to England, where he found stability and a new home.
Sleepwalkers
A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe
AvArthur Koestler
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
100 kr
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Arthur Koestler's extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universeIn this masterly synthesis, Arthur Koestler cuts through the sterile distinction between 'sciences' and 'humanities' to bring to life the whole history of cosmology from the Babylonians to Newton. He shows how the tragic split between science and religion arose and how, in particular, the modern world-view replaced the medieval world-view in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. He also provides vivid and judicious pen-portraits of a string of great scientists and makes clear the role that political bias and unconscious prejudice played in their creativity.
Reflections on Hanging
AvArthur Koestler
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
294 kr
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Scum of the Earth
AvArthur Koestler
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
172 kr
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The story of Koestler's imprisonment in France in 1940, his escape and his extraordinary and adventurous journey to the safety of London, which unfolds like some travel nightmare by Kafka. The 'scum of the earth' are those heroic individuals, like Koestler himself, who had fought the tide of fascism and come to live in liberal France under the mistaken impression that they would be safe.
Dialogue with Death
AvArthur Koestler
Inbunden, Engelska
622 kr
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Promise And Fulfilment - Palestine 1917-1949
AvArthur Koestler
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
342 kr
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Dialogue With Death
AvArthur Koestler
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
300 kr
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Arrow in the Blue
AvArthur Koestler
E-bok
Engelska, 2011
94 kr
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The first volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon.In 1931, Arthur Koestler joined the Communist Party, an event he felt to be second only in importance to his birth in shaping his destiny. Before that point, he lived a tumultuous and varied existence. He was a member of the duelling fraternity at the University of Vienna; a collective farm worker in Galilee; a tramp and street vendor in Haifa; the editor of a weekly paper in Cairo; the foreign correspondent of the biggest continental newspaper chain in Paris and the Middle East; a science editor in Berlin; and a member of the North Pole expedition of the Graf Zeppelin. Written with enormous zest, joie de vivre and frankness, Arrow in the Blue is a fascinating self-portrait of a remarkable young man at the heart of the events that shaped the twentieth century. The second volume of Arthur Koestler's autobiography is The Invisible Writing.
Gladiators
AvArthur Koestler
E-bok
Engelska, 2011
100 kr
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Arthur Koestler's first novel, set in the late Roman Republic, tells the story of the revolt of Spartacus and man's search for Utopia. The first of three novels concerned with the 'ethics of revolution', it addresses the age-old debate of whether the end justifies the means, an argument continued in his classic novels Darkness at Noon and Arrival and Departure.
Invisible Writing
AvArthur Koestler
E-bok
Engelska, 2011
133 kr
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The second volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon.Taken together, Arthur Koestler's volumes of autobiography constitute an unrivalled study of a twentieth-century life. The Invisible Writing picks up where the first volume, Arrow in the Blue, ended, with Koestler joining the Communist Party. This second volume goes on to detail some of the most important, gruelling and electrifying experiences in his life. This book tells of Koestler's travels through Russia and remote parts of Soviet Central Asia and of his life as an exile. It tells of how he survived in Franco's prisons under sentence of death and in concentration camps in Occupied France and ends with his escape in 1940 to England, where he found stability and a new home.
Arrival and Departure
AvArthur Koestler
E-bok
Engelska, 2011
100 kr
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This was the third novel of Arthur Koestler's trilogy on ends and means - the other two are THE GLADIATORS and DARKNESS AT NOON - and the first he wrote in English. The central theme is the conflict between morality and expediency, and in this novel Koestler worked it out in terms of individual psychology. Peter Slavek starts out as a brave young revolutionary, but suffers a breakdown. On the analyst's couch he is made to discover, in Koestler's own words, 'that his crusading zeal was derived from unconscious guilt'.
Promise And Fulfilment - Palestine 1917-1949
AvArthur Koestler
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
547 kr
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Dialogue with Death
AvArthur Koestler
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
461 kr
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Dialogue with Death
AvArthur Koestler
E-bok
Engelska, 2011
139 kr
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Promise and Fulfilment - Palestine 1917-1949
AvArthur Koestler
E-bok
Engelska, 2011
138 kr
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This book consists of three parts, “Background”, “Close-up” and “Perspective”. The first part is a survey of the developments which led to the foundation of the State of Israel. It lays no claim to historical completeness and is written from a specific angle which stresses the part played by irrational forces and emotive bias in history. I am not sure whether this emphasis has not occasionally resulted in over-emphasis—as is almost inevitable when one tries to redress a balance by spot-lighting aspects which are currently neglected. But it was certainly not my intention, by underlining the psychological factor, to deny or minimize the importance of the politico-economic forces. My aim was rather to present, if I may borrow a current medical term, a “psycho-somatic” view of one of the most curious episodes in modern history.The second part, “Close-up”, is meant to give the reader a close and coloured, but not I hope technicoloured, view of the Jewish war and of everyday life in the new State. It opens and ends with extracts from the diary of my last sojourn as a war correspondent in Israel. The emphasis here is on life in the towns, with only occasional glimpses of the collective settlements, since I have given a detailed description of these in an earlier book.The third part, “Perspective”, is an attempt to present to the reader a comprehensive survey of the social and political structure, the cultural trends and future prospects of the Jewish State.
Thieves in the Night
AvArthur Koestler
E-bok
Engelska, 2012
86 kr
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Thieves in the Night : Chronicle of an Experiment was written in 1946. Originally intended to be the first of a trilogy, Koestler later concluded that the book stood on its own and plans for further novels made redundant.Based on the author''s own experiences in a kibbutz, it sets up a stage in describing the historical roots of the conflict between Arabs and Jewish settlers in the British ruled Palestine.The book tackles many subjects, such as Zionism and idealism. Koestler was Zionist early in life, but later abandoned the idea.The title is a Biblical reference, quoted on the title page: "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night." (2 Peter 3:10)
Call-Girls
AvArthur Koestler
E-bok
Engelska, 2012
86 kr
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In this novel the call-girls are the men and women of the international jet-set who, at the lift of a telephone, will fly from conference to congress to symposium to discuss subjects of world importance. This time the place is Switzerland and the subject Survival...
Trail of the Dinosaur
AvArthur Koestler
E-bok
Engelska, 2014
75 kr
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Arthur Koestler''s publications manifest a wide range of political, scientific and literary interests. The Trail of the Dinosaur gathers some of his best-known essays and speeches.The Trail of the Dinosaur , first published in 1955, contains a great deal of Koestler''s thinking for the first ten years after the war – a ''farewell to arms'' as he wrote in his preface. These essays deal with the political questions that obsessed him for the best part of a quarter of a century.The essays in ''The Trail of the Dinosaur'' cover the decade 1946–55-the early or classical period of the Cold War. In that confrontation the West was on the defensive, and the majority of its progressive intellectuals were still turning a benevolently blind eye on Soviet foreign policy and the facts of life behind the Iron Curtain . In the dramatic contest between Whitaker Chambers and Alger Hiss, which has been called the Dreyfus Affair of our century, progressive opinion stood firmly behind Hiss. And when, in the New York Times, I took Chambers'' part, I became, if possible, even more unpopular among self-styled progressives than I had been before.In 1937, during the Civil War in Spain, I spent three months under sentence of death as a suspected spy, witnessing the executions of my fellow prisoners and awaiting my own. These three months left me with a vested interest in capital punishment-rather like ''half-hanged Smith'', who was cut down after fifteen minutes and lived on.
Darkness at Noon
AvArthur Koestler
E-bok
Engelska, 2019
100 kr
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A brilliant new translation of Koestler's long-lost original manuscript. A chilling and unforgettable 20th century classic.From a prison cell in an unnamed country run by a totalitarian government Rubashov reflects. Once a powerful player in the regime, mercilessly dispensing with anyone who got in the way of his party’s aims, Rubashov has had the tables turned on him. He has been arrested and he’ll be interrogated, probably tortured and certainly executed.Darkness at Noon is as gripping as a thriller and a seminal work of twentieth-century literature. Published in Great Britain in 1940, it was feted by George Orwell, went on to be translated into thirty languages and is considered the finest work of pre-eminent European master, Arthur Koestler. And yet the novel’s worldwide reputation has, for over seventy years, been based on the first incomplete and inexpert English translation – Koestler’s original manuscript was lost when he fled the German occupation of Paris in 1940.In 2016, a student discovered that long-lost manuscript in a Zurich archive. At last, with the publication of this new translation of the rediscovered original, Koestler’s masterpiece can be experienced afresh and in its entirety for the first time.THE NEW TRANSLATION BY PHILIP BOEHM
Dialogue with Death
AvArthur Koestler
Häftad, Engelska
498 kr
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Arrow in the Blue
AvArthur Koestler
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
172 kr
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The first volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon.In 1931, Arthur Koestler joined the Communist Party, an event he felt to be second only in importance to his birth in shaping his destiny. Before that point, he lived a tumultuous and varied existence. He was a member of the duelling fraternity at the University of Vienna; a collective farm worker in Galilee; a tramp and street vendor in Haifa; the editor of a weekly paper in Cairo; the foreign correspondent of the biggest continental newspaper chain in Paris and the Middle East; a science editor in Berlin; and a member of the North Pole expedition of the Graf Zeppelin. Written with enormous zest, joie de vivre and frankness, Arrow in the Blue is a fascinating self-portrait of a remarkable young man at the heart of the events that shaped the twentieth century. The second volume of Arthur Koestler's autobiography is The Invisible Writing.

Arthur Koestler – författare

Darkness at Noon

Natt klockan tolv på dagen

Sleepwalkers

Thirteenth Tribe

Natt klockan tolv på dagen

Act of Creation

Arrival and Departure

Darkness at Noon

Darkness At Noon

Invisible Writing

Sleepwalkers

Reflections on Hanging

Scum of the Earth

Dialogue with Death

Promise And Fulfilment - Palestine 1917-1949

Dialogue With Death

Arrow in the Blue

Gladiators

Invisible Writing

Arrival and Departure

Promise And Fulfilment - Palestine 1917-1949

Dialogue with Death

Dialogue with Death

Promise and Fulfilment - Palestine 1917-1949

Thieves in the Night

Call-Girls

Trail of the Dinosaur

Darkness at Noon

Dialogue with Death

Arrow in the Blue