Dialogue with Death: The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War

by Arthur Koestler

2020-11-24 11:16:30

In 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, Arthur Koestler, a German exile writing for a British newspaper, was arrested by Nationalist forces in M laga. He was then sentenced to execution and spent every day awaiting death--only to be released three mont... Read more

In 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, Arthur Koestler, a German exile writing for a British newspaper, was arrested by Nationalist forces in M laga. He was then sentenced to execution and spent every day awaiting death--only to be released three months later under pressure from the British government. Out of this experience, Koestler wrote Darkness at Noon, his most acclaimed work in the United States, about a man arrested and executed in a Communist prison.

Dialogue with Death is Koestler's riveting account of the fall of M laga to rebel forces, his surreal arrest, and his three months facing death from a prison cell. Despite the harrowing circumstances, Koestler manages to convey the stress of uncertainty, fear, and deprivation of human contact with the keen eye of a reporter. Less

Book Details

File size8.5 X 5.5 X 0.6 in
Print pages232
PublisherUniversity Of Chicago Press
Publication date April 1, 2011
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780226449616
Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) was an extraordinary polymath, writer and political polemicist. His most famous works include the novels Darkness at Noon and Arrival and Departure, his autobiographical wr...

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