Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
An old Bolshevik is arrested, interrogated and confesses to crimes he did not commit, for the Party. The novel that explained the show trials.
Read it if…
you want the psychology of the purges in fiction.
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Skip it if…
you want nonfiction; see The Gulag Archipelago.
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Three things you will actually use
- Ends corrupt means.
- Logic can serve lies.
- The individual is not zero.
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Read the interrogation scenes.
Our verdict
Koestler's Darkness.
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