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The dangerous life and enigmatic death of Arthur Koestler: waiting for the new biography.(Biography)
NEXT YEAR is the centenary of Arthur Koestler's birth and will be the occasion for a calmer reassessment of his oeuvre than has been possible during the bitter controversies of the past twenty years. In his native Budapest, where his books were all banned, the liberal Michael Polanyi Society will devote a special issue of its journal Polanyiana to him. It sees him as one of the last of the great Central European Jewish intellectuals--before, as George Steiner put it, "the annihilation of the breed".
Michael Scammell's biography should also at last appear and, judging from published excerpts, will help restore a reputation so badly damaged by David Cesarani's ...
- Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind.(Review)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Rudnick, Hans H. January 1, 2001 700+ words
David Cesarani. Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind. New York...years after the publication of Arthur Koestler's enormously successful Dialogue...have set out to "reevaluate Arthur Koestler's life and thought in terms...
- Arthur Koestler, The Homeless Mind.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History Sallans, Bonnie December 1, 1999 700+ words
Arthur Koestler, The Homeless Mind, by David Cesarani. London, William Heineman...Its message was the product of his personal experience. Who was Arthur Koestler? Where does a book like Darkness at Noon come from? David Cesarani...
- USA. New York. 1960's. Arthur KOESTLER, a Hungarian born writer who wrote an...
- Picture from: Magnum Photos Erich Hartmann January 1, 1952 700+ words
...Magnum Photos 01-01-1952 USA. New York. 1960's. Arthur KOESTLER, a Hungarian born writer who wrote an influential anti...of America Smoker Human being USA. New York. 1960's. Arthur KOESTLER, a Hungarian born writer who wrote an influential anti...
- The Rapist and the Snitch.(author Arthur Koestler)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Nation COCKBURN, ALEXANDER November 23, 1998 700+ words
...s dislikes confirmed, and since I've always thought Arthur Koestler was a shit, I hastened to get back to my sister-in...Koestler as rapist come from David Cesarani's new book, Arthur Koestler: The Homeless/Mind, excerpted recently in the London...
- Arthur Koestler: the consolations of communism.(Critical Essay)
- Magazine article from: Partisan Review Avishai, Bernard March 22, 2003 700+ words
ARTHUR KOESTLER WRITES in his first volume of memoirs, Arrow in the Blue, that he would gladly exchange a hundred readers from his own time for...
- A man who knew his century: Arthur Koestler, born 100 years ago.(APPRECIATION)
- Magazine article from: National Review Pryce-Jones, David September 12, 2005 700+ words
...far from the center of Budapest, stands a house with a plaque on its brick wall recording that on September 5, 1905, Arthur Koestler was born in an apartment on the first floor. The course of his life was to dramatize the epoch's defining struggle between...
- Koestler, Orwell and the inversion of logic.(George Orwell, Arthur Koestler)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Feher, Marta May 1, 2006 700+ words
...ARTICLE I intend to discuss the epistemological inversion that develops in the mentality of Rubashov, the main character in Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon. And I will show how it is connected to the logical construction of the basic legal principle of the...
- Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian...
- Magazine article from: Middle East Policy Talhami, Ghada Hashem June 22, 2005 700+ words
...of science is emphatically different, however. Here, Qumsieh goes beyond the well-known work of Arthur Koestler, The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and Its History (Random House, 1976), which revealed the Slavic Khazar racial...
Source: HighBeam Research, The dangerous life and enigmatic death of Arthur Koestler: waiting...