In a novel by this author, Number 402 converses with the protagonist through tapping on the wall.
In this author's only play, two aliens arrive on Earth and give humanity three days to raise the global happiness quotient, threatening to exterminate the human race if their demands are not met, but are soon revealed to be powerless and simply thrown in jail. In addition to writing that play, Twilight Bar, this author coined the term "cocacolonization" in his final novel The Call Girls and wrote a critical appraisal of Eastern religions in The Lotus and the Robot. He contrasted two types of political problem-solving approaches, those who change themselves and those who change the environment, in The Yogi and the Commisar, and he speculated that the emotional and rational portions of the brain do not cooperate in his treatise The Ghost in the Machine. In a novel by this author, Number 402 converses with the protagonist through tapping on the wall. In that work, Rubashov is executed for offenses he did not commit in order to prove his loyalty to the Communist cause. For 10 points, identify this Hungarian-born author of Darkness at Noon.
In this author's only play, two aliens arrive on Earth and give humanity three days to raise the global happiness quotient, threatening to exterminate the human race if their demands are not met, but are soon revealed to be powerless and simply thrown in jail.
Arthur Koestler