KOESTLER'S SUPERB NOVEL
McMillin, Miles
Koestler's Superb Novel ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE, by Arthur Koest-ler. The Macmillan Company. $2.50. Reviewed by Miles McMillin THE SUPERB writing talent that has won Koest-ler wide acclaim as the...
...Although primarily concerned with the personal psychological problems arising therefrom and the conflict of values that torment the refugee hero, the story also contains some splendid exposition on totalitarian political theory...
...But despite the claims of Clifton Fadiman, whose use of the New Yorker's book section for the dissemination of crack-pot race theories is happily coming to a conclusion, there is nothing in the book that could possibly be construed as proving the author a German-phobe...
...In this respect, however, it does not equal the magnificent job Koestler did in Darkness At Noon...
...Reviewed by Miles McMillin THE SUPERB writing talent that has won Koest-ler wide acclaim as the best imaginative writer to be tossed up by the war is here devoted to an absorbing description of the impact of Europe's revolutionary convulsions on a sensitive young anti-Nazi...
...There are some horrifying descriptions of Nazi brutality, told with surprising detachment for a man who has experienced it first hand...
Vol. 7 • December 1943 • No. 52
