Koestler

American  

[kest-ler, kes-ler] / ˈkɛst lər, ˈkɛs lər /

noun

1. Arthur, 1905–83, British novelist, critic, and journalist; born in Hungary.

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Koestler British  

/ ˈkɜːstlə /

noun

1. Arthur. 1905–83, British writer, born in Hungary. Of his early antitotalitarian novels Darkness at Noon (1940) is outstanding. His later works, The Sleepwalkers (1959), The Act of Creation (1964), and The Ghost in the Machine (1967) reflect his interest in science, philosophy, and psychology. He committed suicide

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Example Sentences

They don’t read like Solzhenitsyn or Koestler, but they wouldn’t be convincing if they did.

From Slate • May 4, 2024

The writer Arthur Koestler had contended in 1959 that the Copernicus book was not read in its time, and Professor Gingerich set out to determine whether that was true.

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2023

The final works were displayed at an exhibition entitled On My Plate in Bracknell, Berkshire, in partnership with the prisons charity, Koestler Arts.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2023

Still, Koestler saw that, in the modern world, it took the ruthlessness of an idea to marshal ordinary human cruelty into an irresistible force.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 23, 2019

“They were all guilty, just not of those particular deeds to which they were confessing,” Koestler writes.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 23, 2019