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Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual

Categorie	Secundair
Boeknummer	#374475-XI33
Titel	Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual
Auteur	Scammell, Michael
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : Faber & Faber
Jaar van uitgave	2010
ISBN10	0571138535
ISBN13	9780571138531
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original red boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Best-known as the author of the classic Darkness at Noon, Koestler was one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals, involved in and commenting on almost every political movement of the twentieth century. As a young man, he was a committed Zionist and moved to Palestine; he was imprisoned and sentenced to death in Francois Spain; escaped Occupied France; and was a member of the Communist party for seven years, later becoming one of its fiercest critics with the publication of Darkness at Noon. Without sentimentality, Scammell gives a full account of Koestlers turbulent private life: his drug use, manic depression, the frenetic womanizing that doomed his three marriages and led to an accusation of rape, and his startling suicide pact with his wife in 1983. Koestler also gives... (Lees verder) a full account of the author's voluminous writings, making the case that the autobiographies and essays are fit to stand beside Darkness at Noon as works of lasting literary value.
Pagina's	689
Conditie	Goed — Name on first free endpaper; 2 small brown stains on side cut.
Prijs	€ 15,00

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