| Notes | Darkness at Noon (German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by Hungarian-born British author Arthur Koestler. Darkness at Noon was written in German while Koestler was living in Paris. It tells the story of Rubashov, an Old Bolshevik who is arrested, imprisoned, and tried for treason against the government that he had helped to create.
Koestler's companion, the sculptor Daphne Hardy, translated it into English during early 1940 while she was living in Paris with him. For decades the German text was thought to have been lost during the escape of Koestler and Hardy from Paris in May 1940, just before the German occupation of France. |
