Dialogue with Death: The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (657 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226449610 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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keetmom said Witness to the horrors of civil war. What a charmed life Arthur Koestler lived if you bear in mind that his frightening time in prison in Spain was followed in short order by the brutal treatment he received at the hands of the French before the fall of France in WWII. Both experiences provided rich material for his novel "Darkness at Noon" describing the life of political prisoners in a . The experience of being a prisoner in a civil war I read this because I like Koestler, not because I care greatly about the Spanish Civil War; this is the same reason I read Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia". (If you do care greatly about the Spanish Civil War then you should probably read Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls".) In this book Koestler describes living in a Spanish city Malaga before and a. Great read. This is a journal about the true account behind the fall of Malaga to rebel forces as experienced by Arthur Koestler, the reporter/journalist/novelist. It depicts his three months in prison at the hand of the fascists during the Spanish Civil War. He illustrates with absolute clarity the fear and desperation that the uncertainty of his life and death s
In 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, Arthur Koestler, a German exile writing for a British newspaper, was arrested by Nationalist forces in Málaga. Despite the harrowing circumstances, Koestler manages to convey the stress of uncertainty, fear, and deprivation of human contact with the keen eye of a reporter.. He was then sentenced to execution and spent every day awaiting death—only to be released three months later under pressure from the British government. Out of this experience, Koestler wrote Darkness at Noon, his most acclaimed work in the United States, about a man arrested and executed in a Communist prison.Dialogue with Death is Koestler’s riveting account of the fall of Málaga to rebel forces, his surreal arrest, and his three months facing death from a prison cell
Dialogue with Death is the more lasting book for its lucid, exact, and unrelenting depiction of an imprisoned man on the verge of death.". "Koestler's harrowing memoir of his three months behind bars with the constant threat of execution inspired his iconic Darkness at Noon