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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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

Born into a Jewish family in Hungary in 1905, Koestler had already lived several professional and ideological lives by the time he joined the Party, in 1931.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 2019

Koestler began writing “Darkness at Noon”—under its original title, “The Vicious Circle”—early in 1939, in France, where he had lived as a stateless refugee ever since Hitler came to power in Germany, six years before.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 2019