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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Standard-issue novel about the Stalinian purges. The mataphysical stuff is just dreary but characterization is OK and pacing just fine. (  ) Kuiperdolin | Nov 1, 2009 |  a heavy read, deep thought from the main character, narrator about what conditions are needed to have a democracy. read this book 20 years ago and it really stuck deep into my mind. (  ) aulap | Aug 23, 2009 | Haunting account of Communist brutality and paranoia. Not to be read lightly or by anyone already suffering from depression! (  ) neil9797 | Jun 16, 2009 | Darkness at Noon takes on a lot: Koestler uses his condemned main character to highlight the ideological shift in the USSR from Leninism to Stalinism, to comment on communism and revolution in general, and to bring the reader inside the mind of a political prisoner. I was assigned this book as part of a 20th century European history course, and it was by far my favorite piece that we read. The novel offers dimension to the student of Soviet history, but is also just a great novel in and of itself. ( ) k8_not_kate | May 25, 2009 | A masterpiece of psychology, getting behind the motives that led so many Russian revolutionaries to confess falsely to literally fantastic crimes in Stalin's show trials. The words Stalin, Lenin and Soviet are not mentioned in this novel, but the flow of discussion and the assumptions are very clear to anyone who is familiar with mid 20th century totalitarian regimes and the thought processes of their defenders. ( ) john257hopper | Mar 16, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0553265954, Mass Market Paperback)This splendid novel is set in the tumultuous Soviet Union of the 1930s during the treason trials. Rubashov, the protagonist and a hero of the revolution, is arrested and jailed for things he has not done, though there is much about the current Soviet state that veered from his ideals as a revolutionary. His investigators, Ivanov and Gletkin, seek a public confession and interrogate him using a number of methods. Through the ordeal, Rubashov reaches an epiphany or two while his interrogators suffer the cruel fate of the Soviet machine. Darkness at Noon succeeds as political/historical novel, but even more so as a refreshing tale of the human spirit.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:10 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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