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Arthur Koestler: eclipse - reading

Arthur Koestler: eclipse - reading
"I plead guilty to the fatal constraint, the policy of the Government shall not be recognized. I have the moans of the sacrificed lent my ear and became deaf to the arguments which proved the necessity of their sacrifice. I plead guilty, the question out of guilt and innocence to have higher than that of the usefulness and harmfulness. Finally, I plead guilty to having made the concept of man over the human race "

In four main chapters -. Presented by which the reading of excerpts - told the Austrian writer of Hungarian origin Arthur Koestler's life and imprisonment of the former People's Commissar Rubashov, who is accused of political deviation. In 1940, published in English book is a key novel about the principle of the Moscow show trials or their underlying Bolshevik dialectic. Highly controversial and "anti-communist piece of work" defamed, the novel a very impressive and exciting insights into a world are included together in the victim and perpetrator in the rigid rules of perverted "socialist" logic that motivates people to place absurd confessions and its own death sentence upheld.

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Arthur Koestler on 5 September 1905 born in Budapest, closes early on the communist movement. As a journalist during the English civil war was arrested and narrowly escaped death, he turns in the wake of the great Stalinist purges from communism. "Eclipse" (1940) is an international bestseller. Following are numerous works of fiction, but also scientific publications (to quantum physics and parapsychology). He died in 1983 in London.

It read: Thomas Birnstiel, Christian Schulz and Stefan Viering
(Baden State Theatre) 25th April 2010, 20.00 Clock Café Budapest - free admission.

NY Times about Koestler>