Darkness at Noon

About this book

Originally written in German, but the German manuscript was lost & only the manuscript of the English translation survived. Darkness At Noonstands as an unequaled fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned & psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he relives a career that embodies the terrible ironies & human betrayals of a totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance. Almost unbearably vivid in its depiction of one man's solitary agony, Darkness At Noonasks questions about ends & means that have relevance not only for the past but for the perilous present. It is, as the Times Literary Supplementhas declared, "a remarkable book, a grimly fascinating interpretation of the logic of the Russian Revolution, indeed of all revolutionary dictatorships, & at the same time a tense & subtly intellectualized drama".