Born in Budapest in 1905, educated in Vienna, Arthur Koestler immersed himself in the major ideological and social conflicts of his time. A communist during the 1930s, and visitor for a time in the Soviet Union, he became disillusioned with the Party and left it in 1938. Later that year in Spain, he was captured by the Fascist forces under Franco, and sentenced to death. Released through the last-minute intervention of the British government, he went to France where, the following year, he again was arrested for his political views. Released in 1940, he went to England, where he made his home. His novels, reportage, autobiographical works, and political and cultural writings established him as an important commentator on the dilemmas of the 20th century. He died in 1983.
Originally published in 1941, Arthur Koestler's modern masterpiece, "Darkness At Noon, " is a powerful and haunting portrait of a Communist revolutionary caught in the vicious fray of the Moscow show trials of the late 1930s.During Stalin's purges, Nicholas Rubashov, an aging revolutionary, is imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the party he has devoted his life to. Under mounting pressure to confess to crimes he did not commit, Rubashov relives a career that embodies the ironies and betrayals of a revolutionary dictatorship that believes it is an instrument of liberation.A seminal work of twentieth-century literature, "Darkness At Noon" is a penetrating exploration of the moral danger inherent in a system that is willing to enforce its beliefs by any means necessary.
我们都对这么一类特殊的审判,或者说表演不陌生:有关庭审的前前后后的一切,早就有了安排好的剧本。法庭的场景布起,演员各司其职。公诉人慷慨陈词,审判员英明神武,被告人与其说是做自我辩护,还不如说是做自我控诉,因为他能否保全性命,能否免于酷刑,或确保作为交易...
評分问题与回答: 1,为了将来的可能实现的美好前景(比如共产主义)是否可以使用卑鄙下流的手段? 回答:不能。 2,前途是光明的,然而道路是曲折的,试问如何在曲折的道路中保持信念? 回答:“坚定的信仰”。 3,如何才能保持坚定的信仰,是大胆质疑,还是盲目的坚定。 回答:质...
評分Rubashov最后选择了"die in silence", 尽管他始终没有想明白是否这是值得的. 苏维埃起初的梦想在No.I的独裁下愈渐黑暗,Rubashov死前多羡慕摩西,尽管他没能去到the land of promise,至少也能在山头远远望一眼,明白所有的磨难是有意义的.Rubashov死在寂静的绝望里,甚至无法完成...
評分正如董乐山在后序中说的,目标与达成目标途径的矛盾是悲剧的根源。现在的我们,知知道当年苏联解体前有过一段以自由为名义的极权时 期,有人说论起杀人,斯大林要略胜希特勒一筹,但排到第一位却另有其人,那人的遗像现在在天安门前挂着。 我并不是一个反共分...
需要重讀的書
评分因為作者哲思插入太多以至於閱讀體驗非常一言難盡難以入戲……。……文字是很漂亮的,觀點也可以說很深刻的,但作為小說整體覺得不行,不行!
评分Incredible
评分第一本讀起來很暢快的!臨刑前的對話真唏噓。人參與這種荒誕劇並演完一生,好值得憤而罷演,推桌而起
评分Six and a half steps to the door, whence they must come to fetch him, six and a half steps to the window, behind which night was falling.
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