Arthur Koestler , born on September 5th 1905 with Budapest, dead on March 3rd 1983 with London, was a novelist, journalist and essay writer Hungarian, naturalized British.

Biography

Arthur Koestler is born in a Hungarian family from Jewish ascent Ashkénaze and German language. He is the son of an industrialist and prosperous inventor. Arthur Koestler studies science and the Psychologie with Vienna and chairs an association of students Zionists. He is thereafter journalist in Palestine.

He enters to the German Communist party in 1931 and fate in 1938, following the Procès of Moscow. He makes several stays in Soviet Union during this period. In 1940, it publishes Darkness At noon , translated under the title the Zero and Infinite the into 1945, which is worth many enmities to him among the French intellectuals of left (Simone de Beauvoir in particular). Francine Bloch figure among the very rare journalists communist sympathizers who take the defense of work and the man.

Covering the War of Spain, it there is condemned to died by the Franquistes but is exchanged some time later against a Spanish prisoner by the English government. From this episode will be born the book a Spanish will .

During the “Funny of war”, it is interned with the camp of Vernet by the French authorities. It engages in the Foreign legion to change identity and to join London. The autobiographical book the dregs of the ground is entirely devoted to this French period.

In the beginnings of the cold war, Arthur Koestler served propaganda anticommunist carried out by the British Intelligence services. It was one of the most important advisers of the Information Research Department at the time of its installation in 1948 and militated within the Congrès for the freedom of the culture. Arthur Koestler is made officer of the Ordre of the British Empire (OBE) in the years 1970. In its book, the Thirteenth Tribe , it questions the Semitic origin of the current Juif S Ashkénaze S, making them go back to the Khazars.

Reached Parkinson's disease and Leukemia, it puts an end to its days in 1983, jointly with his third Cynthia wife by absorption of drugs. It defended the voluntary Euthanasie for a long time and had become in 1981 vice-president of “EXIT”. Its will envisaged the creation of the Pulpit of [[parapsychology] of the Université of Edinburgh], which was actually inaugurated a year later.

The Encyclopædia Britannica is indebted for him many articles.

Quotation

“The Khazar S did not come from Jordan but from the the Volga, not of Canaan but of the the Caucasus. Genetically, they are more connected to the Hun S, Uigars and Magyar S that with the roots of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The history of the Khazar empire, at the time when it emerges slowly from the past, starts to resemble the cruelest mystification ever perpetrated by the history. ” the Thirteenth Tribe

Works

Novels

  • Spartacus ( The gladiators ), Calmann-Levy, 1939; rééd. 2006, ISBN 2702108954.

  • the Zero and Infinite the ( Darkness At noon ), Calmann-Levy, 1940; rééd. 2005, ISBN 2702135625.
  • Crusade without cross ( Arrival and departure ), Calmann-Levy, 1943; rééd. 2005, ISBN 2702135676.
  • the Tower of Ezra ( Thieves in the night ), 1946.
  • the Men is thirsty ( old The off longing ), 1951.
  • the Pressure of the clamping plate ( The puts the midwife toad off), 1971: an account of the searchs for Paul Kammerer on the Lamarckisme and “coincidences in series”.
  • Roots of the chance ( The roots off coincidence ), 1972. Continuation of the Pressure of the clamping plate .
  • the Cal girls ( The cal girls ), 1972.
  • Introduction of the Friend Found of Fred Uhlman, 1975.
  • the Thirteenth Tribe , 1976 (historical novel on the conversion of the Khazars); rééd. 2006, ISBN 2266031279.
  • Janus , ED. Calmann-Levy, 1994, ISBN 2702102875.

Tests

  • Reflections on the capital punishment , in collaboration with Albert Camus), 1955; ED. Gallimard-folio, 2002, ISBN 2070418464.

  • the Sleepwalkers, test on the history of the designs of the Universe ( The sleepwalkers: history off man' S changing vision has off the universe , 1959), Calmann-Levy, 1960.
  • the Cry of Archimedes (test on industrial artistic creation and the scientific discovery), 1960.
  • the Horse in the engine ( The ghost in the machine ), 1967.
  • the Impulse towards the self-destruction , ED. Herne, 2006, ISBN 2851976516.
  • Analysis of a miracle , ED. Circé-pocket, 1998, ISBN 2842420632.

Autobiographies

  • a Spanish Will ( Spanish will/Dialog with death ), 1937.

  • Dregs of the ground ( Scum off the earth ), 1941: account of persecutions of the French government against the foreigners, in 1939-1940.
  • God of darkness ( The god that failed ) (in collaboration with I. Furrows, R. Wright, A. Gide, L. Fischer, and S. Spender, under the direction of Richard Crossman), 1950 * the Tightrope ( Arrow in the blue ), 1952.
  • Hiéroglyphes ( invisible The writing ), 1954.
  • the Foreigner of the public garden ( Stranger one the public garden ), 1983.

Biography

Michel Laval, the man without concessions (Arthur Koestler and its century) , Calmann-Levy, 2005, ISBN 2-7021-3566-8.

See too

Internal bond

External bond

Biography of Koestler

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