The Invisible Writing: The Second Volume of an Autobiography, 1932–1940
by Arthur Koestler
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Taken together, Arthur Koestler's volumes of autobiography constitute an unrivalled study of twentieth-century man and his dilemma. Arrow in the Blue ended with his joining the Communist Party and The Invisible Writing covers some of the most important experiences in his life. This book tells of Koestler's travels through Russia and remote parts of Soviet Central Asia and of his life as an exile. It puts in perspective his experiences in Franco's prisons under sentence of death and in show more concentration camps in Occupied France and ends with his escape in 1940 to England, where he found stability and a new home. show lessTags
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Arthur Koestler was born on September 5, 1905 in Budapest, Hungary and studied at the University of Vienna. Koestler was a Middle East correspondent for several German newspapers, wrote for the Manchester Guardian, the London Times and the New York Herald Tribune. Koestler wrote Darkness at Noon, which centers on the destructiveness of politics, show more The Act of Creation, a book about creativity, and The Ghost in the Machine, which bravely attacks behaviorism. Arthur Koestler died in London on March 3, 1983. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Invisible Writing: The Second Volume of an Autobiography, 1932–1940
- Original publication date
- 1954
- People/Characters
- Arthur Koestler; Langston Hughes; Willi Münzenberg; Alexander Rado; Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski; Otto Katz (show all 9); Margarete Buber-Neumann; Babette Gross; Bertolt Brecht
- Important places
- Kharkiv, Ukraine; Tiflis, Georgia; Yerevan, Armenia; Baku, Azerbaijan; Merv, Turkmenistan; Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan (show all 12); Bukhara, Uzbekistan; Samarkand, Uzbekistan; Tashkent, Uzbekistan; Berlin, Germany; Paris, France; Vienna, Austria
- Important events
- Spanish Civil War
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- Genres
- Biography & Memoir, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 828.91209 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English miscellaneous writings English miscellaneous writings 1900- English miscellaneous writings 1900-1999 English miscellaneous writings 1900-1945 Individual authors not limited to or chiefly identified with one specific form.
- LCC
- PR6021 .O4 — Language and Literature English English Literature 1900-1960
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- Languages
- 7 — English, French, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 15
- ASINs
- 13
