Arrival and Departure

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ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE
Arthur Iioestler's novel begins with the arrival of a young man in the capital of an unnamed neutral country. Whence and what is Peter Slavek? During the interlude which he spends in Neu-tralia he suffers from a nervous breakdown and undergoes a course of treatment in which the whole structure of his past is revealed and the secret motives of his actions are brought to light. Hero, or neurotic case, or both? That is the question! The story moves as it were ontbegeometrical line where the two planes intersect — the rational plane of psychological analysis and the irrational plane of ethical values.
Set against the background of the crowded neutral capital — that raft on which refugees of every nation, faith and political creed are huddled together — this is a remarkable study of a figure typical of a whole generation whose adolescence coincided with the general collapse of values and isms in the last decade. From the juxtaposition of psychological truth and... Tovább

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ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE
Arthur Iioestler's novel begins with the arrival of a young man in the capital of an unnamed neutral country. Whence and what is Peter Slavek? During the interlude which he spends in Neu-tralia he suffers from a nervous breakdown and undergoes a course of treatment in which the whole structure of his past is revealed and the secret motives of his actions are brought to light. Hero, or neurotic case, or both? That is the question! The story moves as it were ontbegeometrical line where the two planes intersect — the rational plane of psychological analysis and the irrational plane of ethical values.
Set against the background of the crowded neutral capital — that raft on which refugees of every nation, faith and political creed are huddled together — this is a remarkable study of a figure typical of a whole generation whose adolescence coincided with the general collapse of values and isms in the last decade. From the juxtaposition of psychological truth and moral truth, of real and rationalized motives, a further and a greater truth may emerge. The book ends with Peter Slavek's departure for an unknown fate, still uncertainly groping for new values only dimly guessed — a sceptic crusader in search of a cross.
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