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First the Confession, Then the Execution

How would the author of “Darkness at Noon” view today’s Rubashovs?

by Shmuel Klatzkin

June 13, 2020, 12:05 AM

A statue of Arthur Koestler in Budapest, unveiled in 2009 (Derzsi Elekes Andor/Creative Commons)

Arthur Koestler’s masterwork was Darkness at Noon. In it, he tells of an old revolutionary caught up in Stalin’s terror who finds himself called to answer with his life for not being in step with the ...

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