Darkness at Noon
Thursday, 2 November 2006 @ 11:31
by Arthur Koestler (1940)
A fictional account of a show trial during Stalin’s 1930s purges, Rubashov, the protagonist, once a revolutionary disillusioned by the regime, is abducted, jailed, tortured (psychologically) and finally confessed to a series of “counter-revolutionary” crimes he didn’t commit, for the ideals of the Revolution.
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Gerhana Tengah Hari
translated from English to Indonesian by Gayus Siagian
published by Pustaka Jaya, 1982
The translation is sadly of low quality, with too many basic grammar and typographic mistakes.
