Arthur Koestler. The homeless mind. by David…

Arthur Koestler. The homeless mind. (original 1998; edition 1998)

by David Cesarani (Author)

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Arthur Koestler is one of the intellectual beacons of the 20th century. Along with Russell, Sartre, Malraux, Camus and Orwell, he helped to shape the world of ideas in which we live.

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Despite its limitations, which were astounding, the purview made availible is astonishingly human. It is worth it for the anecdote about Koestler and Langston Hughes in the USSR.

I read this with my friends and we uproariously dismembered it, a blunted blood lust. Strangely, I never progressed to read any of K's books, only his contribution to The God That Failed (

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jonfaith | Feb 22, 2019 |

Koestler, Arthur, 1905- > Criticism and/interpretation

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