Darkness at Noon -

Arthur Koestler

Scribner

2006

288 páginas

9h 36m

ISBN-13: 9781416540267

Originally published in 1941, Arthur Koestler's modern masterpiece, Darkness at Noon, is a powerful and haunting portrait of a Communist revolutionary caught in the vicious fray of the Moscow show trials of the late 1930s.

During Stalin's purges, Nicholas Rubashov, an aging revolutionary, is imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the party he has devoted his life to. Under mounting pressure to confess to crimes he did not commit, Rubashov relives a career that embodies the ironies and betrayals of a revolutionary dictatorship that believes it is an instrument of liberation.

A seminal work of twentieth-century literature, Darkness At Noon is a penetrating exploration of the moral danger inherent in a system that is willing to enforce its beliefs by any means necessary.

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Regime totalitario

O regime se volta contra um dos seus heróis.

mostra a historia do aprisionamento, confissão forçada e execução de um camarada da revolução.

Ele fica fazendo considerações sobre o que fez que é parecido com o que esta acontecendo agora e como ele deve ser condenado para manter o regime.