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Darkness at Noon (German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940. His best known work, it is the tale of Rubashov, an Old Bolshevik who is arrested, imprisoned, and tried for treason against the government that he helped to create.
The novel is set in 1939 during the Stalinist Great Purge and Moscow show trials. Despite being based on real events, the novel does not name either Russia or the Soviets, and tends to use generic terms to describe people and organizations: for example the Soviet government is referred to as "the Party" and Nazi Germany is referred to as "the Dictatorship". Joseph Stalin is represented by "Number One", a menacing dictator. The novel expresses the author's disillusionment with the Bolshevik ideology of the Soviet Union at the outset of World War II.
In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Darkness at Noon number eight on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century, even though Koestler wrote it in German.
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Fiction, History, Moscow Trials, Moscow, Russia, 1936-1937, Political prisoners, Totalitarianism, Revolution, 1917-1921, Russia, Soviet union, fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, legal, Moscow Trials (Russia : 1936-1937) fast (OCoLC)fst01709887, Fiction, historical, generalPlaces
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Sonnenfinsternis: Roman. Nach dem Originalmanuskript
2018, Elsinor Verlag
Hardcover
in German
- Erstausgabe nach dem Originaltyposkript, 1. Auflage
3942788403 9783942788403
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Darkness at Noon
October 1999, Rebound by Sagebrush
School & Library Binding
in English
0808576364 9780808576365
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Darkness at noon: an anthology : reminiscences in honour of J. Stefan Dupré, University of Toronto, October 17, 1997
1997, University of Toronto
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Darkness at Noon (Twentieth Century Classics)
July 1994, Penguin Books
Hardcover
in Spanish
- New Ed edition
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Darkness at Noon (Twentieth Century Classics)
July 1994, Penguin Books
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Darkness at noon
1987, Macmillan
in English
- 1st Macmillan Hudson River ed.
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Darkness at noon
1973, Hutchinson
in English
- Danube ed., with a new postscript by the author.
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