@booklet {9152, title = {The Age of Longing}, year = {1951}, month = {1951}, publisher = {The Macmillan Co.}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The novel is set in the mid-1950s when a successful U.S.S.R., now known as the \“Commonwealth of Freedomloving People\” or \“Free Commonwealth,\” has taken over most of Western Europe and is waiting for the right moment to take France.\ 

}, keywords = {Austrian author, English author, Hungarian author, Male author}, author = {Arthur Koestler (1905-83)} } @booklet {1246, title = {Twilight Bar: An Escapade in Four Acts}, year = {1945}, month = {1945}, publisher = {Jonathan Cape}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Classic body-eutopia.\ According to the \“Author\’s Note\” (6-7) it was written in 1933 in Russia and lost; he rewrote it in 1944. Both versions were \“escape[s] from the pressure of reality\” (7).

}, keywords = {Austrian author, English author, Hungarian author, Male author}, author = {Arthur Koestler (1905-83)} } @booklet {9151, title = {Darkness at Noon}, year = {1940}, note = {

Rpt. London: The Folio Society, 1980 with an \“Introduction\” (7-15) by Vladimir Bukovsky. U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1941.\ Because the original manuscript was assumed to have been lost, all publications of the novel, including German ones, were based on this translation, but it was discovered in 2015, and a new translation by Philip Boehm based on that manuscript has been published. London: Vintage Classics, 2019. U.S. ed. New York: Scribner, 2019.\ 

}, month = {1940}, publisher = {Jonathan Cape}, address = {London}, abstract = {

A famous work describing the Show Trials in the U.S.S.R. under Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) that has been called a dystopia and has been very influential on dystopian literature.\ 

}, keywords = {Austrian author, English author, Hungarian author, Male author}, author = {Arthur Koestler (1905-83)} }