Arrow in the Blue

Resumen del libro

The first volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon. In 1931, Arthur Koestler joined the Communist Party, an event he felt to be second only in importance to his birth in shaping his destiny. Before that point, he lived a tumultuous and varied existence.

He was a member of the duelling fraternity at the University of 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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;strong Arthur Koestlerx{0026}lt;/strong nació en Budapest en 1905 en el seno de una familia judía y se suicidó en Londres en 1983. Abandonó el Partido Comunista Alemán desencantado por las purgas estalinistas y ratificó su desafección tras el pacto nazi-soviético. En su amistad con Richard Crossman está la raíz de este libro. Periodista y escritor, entre sus obras destacan x{0026}lt;em Diálogo con la muerte. Un testamento españolx{0026}lt;/em (1937) o x{0026}lt;/em Escoria de la tierrax{0026}lt;/em (1941, publicado por Ladera Norte en 2023), la novela x{0026}lt;em El cero y el infinitox{0026}lt;/em (1941) y los ensayos x{0026}lt;/em Reflexiones sobre la horcax{0026}lt;/em (1956) y x{0026}lt;em Los sonámbulosx{0026}lt;/em (1959).