| Dialogue with Death: The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War Contributor(s): Koestler, Arthur (Author), Menand, Louis (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0226449610 ISBN-13: 9780226449616 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Editors, Journalists, Publishers - History | Europe - Spain & Portugal |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2010041525 |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 5.65" W x 8.47" (0.61 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1930's - Cultural Region - Spanish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, Arthur Koestler, a German exile writing for a British newspaper, was arrested by Nationalist forces in M laga. He was then sentenced to execution and spent every day awaiting death--only to be released three months later under pressure from the British government. Out of this experience, Koestler wrote Darkness at Noon, his most acclaimed work in the United States, about a man arrested and executed in a Communist prison. Dialogue with Death is Koestler's riveting account of the fall of M laga to rebel forces, his surreal arrest, and his three months facing death from a prison cell. Despite the harrowing circumstances, Koestler manages to convey the stress of uncertainty, fear, and deprivation of human contact with the keen eye of a reporter. |
Contributor Bio(s): Menand, Louis: - Louis Menand is a staff writer at the New Yorker as well as the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard University. He is the author of several books, including the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Metaphysical Club. |