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Am 14. Mai 1948 endete das Britische Mandat über Palästina, und David Ben Gurion unterzeichnete noch am selben Tag die israelische Unabhängigkeitserklärung. Unmittelbar darauf erklärten die Nachbarstaaten Israel den Krieg. Die Zukunft des jungen Staates schien mehr als ungewiss.

Druhý díl pamětí Arthura Koestlera navazuje na díl první, nazvaný Šíp do nebe, a zobrazuje především proces, v němž se autor odvrátil od komunismu. Jeho hledání, tápání a pochyby jsou pozoruhodné. Neméně důležité jsou ovšem dějiny, které se před očima tohoto bystrého pozorovatele odehrávaly – a jichž se autor snažil účastnit. Sledoval je v Sovětském svazu začátkem třicátých let pohledem komunisty, pak v západní Evropě pohledem hodně zviklaného komunisty, odsouzence k smrti ve Frankově vězení za španělské občanské války, poté v internaci v okupované Francii a konečně v Anglii, kam se mu nakonec podařilo šťastně uprchnout.

Bisher unveröffentlicht - Arthur Koestlers erster Roman!Von den Verlagen abgelehnt, fiel das Manuskript 1940 der Gestapo in die Hände. 1945 wurde es von dem sowjetischen Geheimdienst in Berlin sichergestellt. Da sich Koestler darin kritisch zum Sozialismus äußert, blieb das Manuskript lange in Moskau unter Verschluss. Erst jetzt wurde es in einem Archiv wiederentdeckt.Im Zentrum der Erzählung steht ein Kollektiv deutscher Emigrantenkinder, die nahe Paris in einem Kinderheim aufwachsen - darunter auch „Genosse Piepvogel“. Damals gängige Erziehungskonzepte und die Revolten pubertierender Kinder werden thematisiert. Koestler knüpft eindeutige Bezüge zur politischen Emigration der 1930er Jahre und nicht zuletzt die Verwendung von Originaldokumenten symbolisiert den erregten Zeitgeist.

Written when execution by guillotine was still legal in France, Albert Camus' devastating attack on the 'obscene exhibition' of capital punishment remains one of the most powerful, persuasive arguments ever made against the death penalty.

The book explores the historical foundations of the State of Israel through a unique lens, emphasizing the influence of irrational forces and emotional biases alongside traditional politico-economic factors. It is divided into three parts: "Background," which surveys key developments; "Close-up," focusing on specific events; and "Perspective," offering broader insights. The author aims to provide a balanced view by highlighting psychological elements in history, presenting a "psycho-somatic" understanding of this significant modern episode.

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At the beginning of the Second World War, Koestler was living in the south of France working on Darkness at Noon. After retreating to Paris he was imprisoned by the French as an undesirable alien even though he had been a respected crusader against fascism. Only luck and his passionate energy allowed him to escape the fate of many of the innocent refugees, who were handed over to the Nazis for torture and often execution. Scum of the Earth is more than the story of Koestler's survival. His shrewd observation of the collapse of the French determination to resist during the summer of 1940 is an illustration of what happens when a nation loses its honour and its pride. -- From the 2006 paperback edition.

Hardcover. Edited, with an introduction and epilogue by Harold Harris. Related newspaper clippings laid in. Minor shelfwear to the jacket; faint stain on the inside at the lower edge. The inner flaps, pastedowns and endpapers are tanned. One or two creased page corners. All text and images are clear. CM

Die Autobiographie eines der schillerndsten Intellektuellen des 20. Jahrhunderts: Arthur Koestler, 1905 in Budapest geboren, war Autor, Journalist und Philosoph. Der Zionist und Kommunist wurde von der Gestapo gejagt und im spanischen Bürgerkrieg zum Tode verurteilt, während ihn Moskau später als Kalten Krieger beschimpfte. In seiner Autobiographie lotet er wie kein anderer die Grenzen im Jahrhundert der Extreme aus.

1937, kurz vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg: Der junge Halbengländer Joseph sucht in der jüdischen Siedlung Esras Turm in Palästina ein neues Leben. Doch über ihm und der Kommune lasten dunkle Schatten: die Nazi-Verfolgung in Europa, der Terror der Araber, der Gegenterror militante jüdischer Gruppen und die zunehmenden Restriktionen der britischen Mandatsmacht, die jüdische Neuansiedlungen erschweren. Der Traum von einer sicheren Heimat scheint für die aus Europa geflohenen Juden unerreichbar. Der Roman beleuchtet die historischen Wurzeln des Nahost-Konflikts. Arthur Koestler, ein einflussreicher Intellektueller und Aktivist des 20. Jahrhunderts, greift in seinem Werk die großen politischen Themen seiner Zeit auf und erkundet Grenzen und Extreme. Basierend auf seinen eigenen Erfahrungen in einem Kibbuz erzählt er die Geschichte der Gründung einer jüdischen Siedlung in Palästina am Vorabend des Krieges. Fiktion und Zeitdokument werden geschickt verknüpft. Koestler, der seinen Roman 1945 in Jerusalem in einer von Terrorismus und Brutalität geprägten Atmosphäre vollendete, ermöglicht ein vertieftes Verständnis der Konflikthintergründe zwischen Arabern und jüdischen Siedlern.

Als im Juli 1936 nach einem Generalputsch der Spanische Bürgerkrieg ausbricht, zeigen sich viele Intellektuelle auf der ganzen Welt solidarisch mit der bedrohten Republik. Auch Schriftsteller und Journalist Arthur Koestler reist wenig später als Kriegsberichterstatter nach Spanien. Dort erlebt er die Eroberung Málagas durch die Truppen von General Franco mit. Kurz darauf wird Koestler von faschistischen Putschisten festgenommen und durch ein Standgericht zum Tode verurteilt. Auf seine Hinrichtung wartend, beginnt Koestler, seine Beobachtungen und Gedanken in Ein spanisches Testament niederzuschreiben.

In this penetrating selection of essays and reviews, Arthur Koestler roves from Indian politics to the paranormal, from materialism to mysticism. Whether he is addressing a learned society on education or psychiatry, discussing ESP, reporting the Fischer-Spassky chess championship or taking a step into the 1980s, Koestler is always controversial, forthright and stimulating — above all, compulsively readable. [Taken from the back cover]

This book explores the history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a significant yet often overlooked power in Eastern Europe that converted to Judaism during the Dark Ages. The Khazars, who thrived from the 7th to 11th century, were ultimately destroyed by Genghis Khan's forces, but evidence suggests they migrated to Poland, contributing to the roots of Western Jewry. While the Khazars may seem distant to contemporary readers, their legacy has surprising relevance today. At the time of Charlemagne's reign in the West, the Khazars controlled a vast territory from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea, playing a crucial role in halting the Muslim advance against Byzantium. This positioned them precariously between the Eastern Roman Empire and the followers of Mohammed. Koestler characterizes the Khazars as the Third World of their era, as they resisted the pressures to convert to Christianity from the West and Islam from the East by choosing Judaism instead. He speculates on the fate of the Khazars and their influence on the racial and social heritage of modern Jewry, presenting detailed research that challenges conventional understandings of anti-Semitism.

The narrative centers on Dr. Paul Kammerer, whose suicide in 1926 marked a dramatic end to a fierce debate in evolutionary biology. His experiments with amphibians, particularly salamanders and the midwife toad, supported the Lamarckian theory of inherited acquired characteristics, challenging the neo-Darwinist perspective of evolution through chance mutations and natural selection. Kammerer's work ignited significant controversy, pitting him against established scientists and ultimately leading to his tragic demise amidst the scientific turmoil.

The author examines recent developments in parapsychological research and explains their implications for physicists

In The Sleepwalkers and The Act of Creation Arthur Koestler provided pioneering studies of scientific discovery and artistic inspiration, the twin pinnacles of human achievement. The Ghost in the Machine looks at the dark side of the coin: our terrible urge to self-destruction... Could the human species be a gigantic evolutionary mistake? To answer that startling question Koestler examines how experts on evolution and psychology all too often write about people with an 'antiquated slot-machine model based on the naively mechanistic world-view of the nineteenth century. His brilliant polemic helped to instigate a major revolution in the life sciences, yet its 'glimpses of an alternative world-view' form only the background to an even more challenging analysis of the human predicament. Perhaps, he suggests, we are a species in which ancient and recent brain structures - or reason and emotion - are not fully co-ordinated. Such in-built deficiencies may explain the paranoia, violence and insanity that are central strands of human history. And however disturbing we find such issues, Koestler contends, it is only when we face our limitations head-on that we can hope to find a remedy.

The author examines the idea that we are at our most creative when rational thought is suspended-for example, in dreams and trancelike states.

Arthur Koestler's extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universe In this masterly synthesis, Arthur Koestler cuts through the sterile distinction between 'sciences' and 'humanities' to bring to life the whole history of cosmology from the Babylonians to Newton. He shows how the tragic split between science and religion arose and how, in particular, the modern world-view replaced the medieval world-view in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. He also provides vivid and judicious pen-portraits of a string of great scientists and makes clear the role that political bias and unconscious prejudice played in their creativity.

Arrow in the Blue is the first volume of Arthur Koestler's autobiography. It covers the first 26 years of his life and ends with his joining the Communist Party in 1931, an event he felt to be second only in importance to his birth in shaping his destiny.In the years before 1931, Arthur Koestler lived a tumultuous and varied existence. He was a member of the duelling fraternity at the University if Vienna; a collective farm worker in Galilee; a tramp and street vendor in Haifa; the editor of a weekly paper in Cairo; the foreign correspondent of the biggest continental newspaper chain in Paris and the Middle East; a science editor in Berlin; and a member of the North Pole expedition of the Graf Zeppelin.Written with enormous zest, joie de vivre and frankness, Arrow in the Blue is a fascinating self-portrait of a remarkable young man at the heart of the events that shaped the twentieth century.The second volume of Arthur Koestler's autobiography is The Invisible Writing.

Historia de la rebelión de unos gladiadores, en la Roma Imperial, que la mantuvo en jaque durante dos años.

Rusbashov, miembro de la vieja guardia bolchevique y héroe de la Revolución Soviética, ha sido encarcelado acusado de traición al gobiernode Moscú. Es incitado a autoinculparse de una serie de delitos y traiciones que no ha cometido, pero termina por confesar a fin de salvar la Revolución. Esta obra cumbre de la literatura política nos ofrece un testimonio excepcional de la angustia que sufrieron cientos de antiguos miembros del Partido que desaparecieron, fueron encarcelados y juzgados o llegaron a autoinmolarse para salvarlo

This was the third novel of Arthur Koestler's trilogy on ends and means - the other two are THE GLADIATORS and DARKNESS AT NOON - and the first he wrote in English. The central theme is the conflict between morality and expediency, and in this novel Koestler worked it out in terms of individual psychology. Peter Slavek starts out as a brave young revolutionary, but suffers a breakdown. On the analyst's couch he is made to discover, in Koestler's own words, 'that his crusading zeal was derived from unconscious guilt'.

Popis zážitků z návštěvy vojenského velení v Seville, kde působil Francisco Franco. Koestler tam pronikl v roce 1936 během občanské války, předstírajíc podporu Frankovi a s falešným doporučením z deníku News Chronicle. Dílo bylo napsáno ve Francii a později se stalo součástí knihy Spanish Testament.