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Arthur Koestler
1905–1983
Hungarian-British author and journalist Arthur Koestler was born in Budapest and educated in Vienna. He worked as a journalist in Palestine in the late 1920s, and then returned to Europe, where he was arrested and imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War and again in France. Koestler’s novel Darkness at Noon (1940), advocating against totalitarian regimes, brought him fame. Koestler settled in England, where he supported political causes and wrote essays, novels, and memoirs. His was one of the earliest voices describing and protesting the Holocaust. His death was self-inflicted, likely motivated by his terminal illnesses.
Content by Arthur Koestler
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On Disbelieving Atrocities
This essay argues that ordinary people often dismiss reports of massacres as propaganda due to an inability to comprehend such evil.
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Thieves in the Night
But the distant lulls were merely the frame of the picture; the feast for Joseph’s eyes was the green Valley of Jezreel itself, the cradle of the Communes. Twenty years ago a desolate marsh cursed…
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