Darkness at Noon

Darkness at Noon

Arthur Koestler • Jonathan Cape

ISBN-10: 0025652109 · ISBN-13: 978‑0451006714 · 1940 · 1st Edition

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Arthur Koestler’s seminal 1940 novel serves as a harrowing examination of the Soviet show trials and the psychological disintegration of the individual under a totalitarian regime. Through the protagonist Rubashov, a former Bolshevik official, the narrative explores the moral compromises and intellectual justifications that lead to state-sanctioned betrayal. This profound work remains a definitive critique of ideological extremism and the erosion of human conscience within the machinery of power.

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