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Scum of the Earth
The story of Koestler's imprisonment in France in 1940, his escape and his extraordinary and adventurous journey to the safety of London, which unfolds like some travel nightmare by Kafka. The `scum of the earth' are those heroic individuals, like Koestler himself, who had fought the tide of fascism and come to live in liberal France under the mistaken impression that they would be safe.
Biography & AutobiographyLiterary FiguresPersonal MemoirsFictionHistoryWars & Conflicts
RELEASED2006
PUBLISHEREland
LENGTH253
LANGUAGEEN
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Arthur Koestler CBE was a prolific writer of essays, novels and autobiographies. He was born into a Hungarian Jewish family in Budapest but, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. His early career was in journalism. In 1931 he joined the Communist Party of Germany but, disillusioned, he resigned from it in 1938 and in 1940 published a devastating anti-Communist novel, Darkness at Noon, which propelled him to instant international fame. ([Source][1]) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Koestler
5.0
Scum of the Earth
The story of Koestler's imprisonment in France in 1940, his escape and his extraordinary and adventurous journey to the safety of London, which unfolds like some travel nightmare by Kafka. The `scum of the earth' are those heroic individuals, like Koestler himself, who had fought the tide of fascism and come to live in liberal France under the mistaken impression that they would be safe.
Biography & AutobiographyLiterary FiguresPersonal MemoirsFictionHistoryWars & ConflictsWorld War IIWorld
RELEASED2006
PUBLISHEREland
LENGTH253
LANGUAGEEN
Arthur Koestler CBE was a prolific writer of essays, novels and autobiographies. He was born into a Hungarian Jewish family in Budapest but, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. His early career was in journalism. In 1931 he joined the Communist Party of Germany but, disillusioned, he resigned from it in 1938 and in 1940 published a devastating anti-Communist novel, Darkness at Noon, which propelled him to instant international fame. ([Source][1]) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Koestler
