At one point in this novel, the protagonist compares people catching up to the technological advances of their age to ships rising in a lock.
At one point in this novel, the protagonist compares people catching up to the technological advances of their age to ships rising in a lock. One character in this novel begins every morning by sending the message "Arise, ye wretched of the earth", misspelled. This book's protagonist remembers seeing a painting of a Pieta during a meeting with Richard. He is haunted by the suicide of Little Loewy, and by his affair with his secretary, Arlova, who was executed when he refused to help her. Gletkin tortures this novel's protagonist, who suffers from a chronic toothache and taps his pince-nez eyeglasses against the wall to communicate in code with the prisoner in cell 402. For 10 points, Nicholas Rubsahov is accused of crimes against No. 1 by the political party he helped to build in what novel by Arthur Koestler?
At one point in this novel, the protagonist compares people catching up to the technological advances of their age to ships rising in a lock.
Darkness at Noon [or Sonnenfinstirnis]