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Dialogue with Death : The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War
by Arthur Koestler and Louis Menand
Overview
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.This item is Non-Returnable
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780226449616
- ISBN-10: 0226449610
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Publish Date: April 2011
- Dimensions: 8.47 x 5.65 x 0.62 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.61 pounds
- Page Count: 232
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