Arrow in the Blue - Arthur Koestler

Arrow in the Blue

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Buch | Softcover
416 Seiten
2005
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-949067-8 (ISBN)
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Arrow in the Blue is the first volume of Arthur Koestler's autobiography.

In the years before 1931, Arthur Koestler lived a tumultuous and varied existence.

The second volume of Arthur Koestler's autobiography is The Invisible Writing.
Arrow in the Blue is the first volume of Arthur Koestler's autobiography. It covers the first 26 years of his life and ends with his joining the Communist Party in 1931, an event he felt to be second only in importance to his birth in shaping his destiny.

In the years before 1931, Arthur Koestler lived a tumultuous and varied existence. He was a member of the duelling fraternity at the University if Vienna; a collective farm worker in Galilee; a tramp and street vendor in Haifa; the editor of a weekly paper in Cairo; the foreign correspondent of the biggest continental newspaper chain in Paris and the Middle East; a science editor in Berlin; and a member of the North Pole expedition of the Graf Zeppelin.

Written with enormous zest, joie de vivre and frankness, Arrow in the Blue is a fascinating self-portrait of a remarkable young man at the heart of the events that shaped the twentieth century.

The second volume of Arthur Koestler's autobiography is The Invisible Writing.

Arthur Koestler was born in Budapest in 1905. He attended the university of Vienna before working as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Berlin and Paris. For six years he was an active member of the Communist Party, and was captured by Franco in the Spanish Civil War. In 1940 he came to England. He wrote The Gladiators in Hungarian, Darkness at Noon in German, and Arrival and Departure in English. He set up the Arthur Koestler Award (now the Koestler Trust) which awards prizes for creative achievements to prisoners, detainees and patients in special hospitals. He died in 1983 by suicide, having frequently expressed a belief in the right to euthanasia.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.9.2005
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 289 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10 0-09-949067-6 / 0099490676
ISBN-13 978-0-09-949067-8 / 9780099490678
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