by Arthur Koestler · Vintage Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099490678
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«Arrow in the Blue» is the first volume of Arthur Koestler's autobiography, published by Vintage Classics in paperback (416 pages, in English).
This volume covers Arthur Koestler's first twenty-six years up to his joining the Communist Party in 1931: dueling fraternity in Vienna, work on a farm in Galilee, journalism in Cairo, Paris and Berlin, and participation in the Graf Zeppelin expedition to the North Pole. Arthur Koestler wrote it with frankness and vitality.
First volume of Arthur Koestler's autobiography; the sequel is «The Invisible Writing». The work was originally published in 1952.
Aimed at readers of biographies and memoirs, interested in politics and twentieth-century European history.
Arthur Koestler was an Austro-Hungarian-born author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest, and was educated in Austria, apart from his early school years. In 1931, Koestler joined the Communist Party of Germany but resigned in 1938 after becoming disillusioned with Stalinism.
