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The invisible writing. An autobiography 1931 - 53. Arthur Koestler.
Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983) was an Anglo-Hungarian writer and anti-communist during the Cold War.
He was of Jewish descent, became a young journalist in Germany and then secretly joined the German Communist Party. He traveled to the Soviet Union in the fall of 1932, among other places. He was a correspondent for a British newspaper during the Spanish Civil War and narrowly escaped execution while being held captive by the nationalist army of General Francisco Franco. He then abandoned communism and wrote the novel Darkness at Noon, which was published in Icelandic in 1947. In it, he attempted to explain the confessions of the defendants in the so-called Moscow Trials, which Stalin held in 1938 over several of his main rivals for power in the Russian Communist Party. At the end of 1945, Morgunblaðið published an excerpt from Koestler's essays on the Soviet Union under the title "Faith in the Soviet Union", which caused intense controversy in the press. Koestler was the editor of the collection of articles Guðinn sím frást, which was published in Icelandic in 1950, in which six well-known intellectuals spoke of their disappointment with communism.
Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983) was an Anglo-Hungarian writer and anti-communist during the Cold War.
He was of Jewish descent, became a young journalist in Germany and then secretly joined the German Communist Party. He traveled to the Soviet Union in the fall of 1932, among other places. He was a correspondent for a British newspaper during the Spanish Civil War and narrowly escaped execution while being held captive by the nationalist army of General Francisco Franco. He then abandoned communism and wrote the novel Darkness at Noon, which was published in Icelandic in 1947. In it, he attempted to explain the confessions of the defendants in the so-called Moscow Trials, which Stalin held in 1938 over several of his main rivals for power in the Russian Communist Party. At the end of 1945, Morgunblaðið published an excerpt from Koestler's essays on the Soviet Union under the title "Faith in the Soviet Union", which caused intense controversy in the press. Koestler was the editor of the collection of articles Guðinn sím frást, which was published in Icelandic in 1950, in which six well-known intellectuals spoke of their disappointment with communism.