Arthur Koestler (book)
First U.S. edition book cover | |
| Author | Mark Levene |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Frederick Ungar (US) and Oswald Wolff (UK) |
| Pages | 176 |
| ISBN | 0-85496-086-4 (cloth); ISBN 0854960899 (paperback) |
| OCLC | 12514430 |
Arthur Koestler is a book by Mark Levene about the life and work of Hungarian-British writer Arthur Koestler. The book was published in 1984, one year after Koestler's suicide. Until 2021, it was the only published monograph on Koestler's fiction.[1]
The book is divided into seven main chapters, of which the first is a biography and the other six critical essays on each of Koestler's six novels, his stories and his play Twilight Bar.[2]
The book functions as an introduction to Koestler's work, outlining plots and characters and identifying major thematic and structural questions. It presents Koestler as a committed intellectual, whether as a communist, anticommunist, Zionist, or student of the scientic mind.[3]
The book was published by Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. in New York, 1984, and by Oswald Wolff (Publishers) in London, 1985, ISBN 0-85496-086-4 (cloth); ISBN 0-85496-089-9 (paperback).
References
- ^ Vernyik, Zénó (2021). "From Reviving the Dinosaur to reconnecting with the Visionary". In Vernyik, Zénó (ed.). Arthur Koestler's Fiction and the Genre of the Novel: Rubashov and Beyond. Lexington Books. ISBN 9781793622266.
- ^ MacAdam, Henry; Cooper, Duncan (2020). The Gladiators vs. Spartacus, Volume 1: Dueling Productions in Blacklist Hollywood. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 18. ISBN 9781527562271.
- ^ Hagen, W.M. (1985). "Arthur Koestler by Mark Levene". World Literature Today. 59 (4).