Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

This political-historical novel tells the story of a man on trial for treason in Russia in the 1930s, and invites the reader to consider questions of power, betrayal, and the cost of political freedom.

The title, Arthur Keostler’s Darkness at Noon, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Arthur Keostler’s Darkness at Noon through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Arthur Keostler, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.