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OverviewThe second volume of the eye-opening adventure story that is Arthur Koestler's autobiography - Koestler is the acclaimed author of anti-Soviet dystopia Darkness at Noon 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Arthur KoestlerPublisher: Vintage Publishing Imprint: Vintage Classics Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.373kg ISBN: 9780099490685ISBN 10: 0099490684 Pages: 544 Publication Date: 01 September 2005 Recommended Age: From 0 years Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , General/trade , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsA brilliant and deeply moving record of a whole generation as well as of an individual Observer The cumulative effect is overwhelming New Republic He is a journalist of ideas on a very high level - the kind we lack and need in this country - who functions midway between the realms of art and of society, but whose function is indispensable, if thought is to be part of culture Saturday Review Author InformationArthur Koestler was born in Budapest in 1905. He attended the University of Vienna before working as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Berlin and Paris. For six years he was an active member of the Communist Party, and was captured by Franco in the Spanish Civil War. In 1940 he came to England, adopting the language with his first book in English, Scum of the Earth. His publications manifest a wide range of political, scientific and literary interests, and include Darkness at Noon, Arrow in the Blue and The Invisible Writing. He died in 1983 by suicide, having frequently expressed a belief in the right to euthanasia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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