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Koestler

Arthur. 1905--83, British writer, born in Hungary. Of his early antitotalitarian novels Darkness at Noon (1940) is outstanding. His later works, The Sleepwalkers (1959), The Act of Creation (1964), and The Ghost in the Machine (1967) reflect his interest in science, philosophy, and psychology. He committed suicide
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Nowadays, Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) is almost solely discussed as the author of Darkness at Noon (1940).
Somewhere in The Anatomy of Laughter I seem to remember Arthur Koestler writing that laughter results, in part, from the juxtaposition off the unexpected and it was the tension of this dialectic that prompted me to smile.
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