Arrow in the Blue I.

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ARROW IN THE BLUE Arthur Koestler Arthur Koestler's Arrow in the Blue is an unsettling memoir by one of the most extraordinary intellectual nomads of the twentieth century. Frank, fascinating, and unsparing, Koestler recalls his early life in Budapest to the most important commitment of his youth: his conversion to Communism in 1931, in blind and hopeless pre-Hitler Germany. By the time he was twenty-five, Koestler had already reached the top of his journalistic profession, a restless, sharp-eyed wanderer who traveled throughout Europe and the Middle East living-and making-history, as a pioneer in early Palestine, a firsthand witness to the fali of the Germán Republic and the rise of Nazism, and as a groundfloor entrant to the young Communist movement. In his exciting youth he was, among other things, a member of a duelling fraternity at the University of Vienna, a Zionist immigrant to Palestine, a lemonade vendor on the streets of Haifa, a bohemian in Tel Aviv, the editor of a... Tovább

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ARROW IN THE BLUE Arthur Koestler Arthur Koestler's Arrow in the Blue is an unsettling memoir by one of the most extraordinary intellectual nomads of the twentieth century. Frank, fascinating, and unsparing, Koestler recalls his early life in Budapest to the most important commitment of his youth: his conversion to Communism in 1931, in blind and hopeless pre-Hitler Germany. By the time he was twenty-five, Koestler had already reached the top of his journalistic profession, a restless, sharp-eyed wanderer who traveled throughout Europe and the Middle East living-and making-history, as a pioneer in early Palestine, a firsthand witness to the fali of the Germán Republic and the rise of Nazism, and as a groundfloor entrant to the young Communist movement. In his exciting youth he was, among other things, a member of a duelling fraternity at the University of Vienna, a Zionist immigrant to Palestine, a lemonade vendor on the streets of Haifa, a bohemian in Tel Aviv, the editor of a weekly in Cairo, foreign correspondent for the biggest chain of Continental newspapers in Paris and the Middle East, science editor in Berlin, and the only journalist on board the Gráf Zeppelin during its historic North Pole expedition of 1931. Koestler's observations shed a fresh perspective on all they touch. His understanding of the men and motives that gave birth to Palestine and his acute insight into the lure of Communism in the latc twenties and
(continuedfrom front flap) early thirties illuminate this complex period that shaped the destiny of our time. Arrow in the Blue is both uncommon autobiography and the provocative, compelling witness to an epoch. Alsó available from STEIN AND DAY Vissza