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Koestler was born in Budapest , and apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. In , Koestler joined the Communist Party of Germany , but he resigned in after becoming disillusioned with Stalinism. Having moved to Britain in , he published his novel Darkness at Noon , an anti- totalitarian work that gained him international fame. Over the next 43 years, Koestler espoused many political causes and wrote novels, memoirs, biographies, and numerous essays. In , Koestler began secretly working with a British Cold War anti-communist propaganda department known as the Information Research Department IRD , which would republish and distribute many of his works, and also fund his activities. In , he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and in with terminal leukaemia. His mother was briefly a patient of Sigmund Freud. In interwar Vienna he wound up as the personal secretary of Vladimir Jabotinsky , one of the early leaders of the Zionist movement. While reporting on the Spanish Civil War , he met W. Auden at a 'crazy party' in Valencia before winding up in one of Franco 's prisons. Afraid of being caught by the Gestapo while fleeing France, he borrowed suicide pills from Walter Benjamin. He took them several weeks later when it seemed he would be unable to get out of Lisbon, but he did not die. In the s he was still giving lectures that impressed, among others, the young Salman Rushdie. Henrik left school at age 16 and took a job as an errand boy with a firm of drapers. He taught himself English, German and French, and eventually became a partner in the firm. He later set up his own business importing textiles into Hungary. Among her ancestors was Jonas Mischel Loeb Jeitteles , a prominent 18th-century physician and essayist, whose son Juda Jeitteles became a well-known poet Beethoven set some of his poems to music. Adele's father, Jacob Jeiteles, moved the family to Vienna , where she grew up in relative prosperity until about Faced with financial difficulties, Jacob abandoned his wife and daughter and emigrated to the United States. Adele and her mother moved from Vienna to Budapest to stay with Adele's older married sister. Henrik and Adele met in , and married in Arthur, their only child, was born on 5 September The Koestlers lived in spacious, well-furnished, rented apartments in various predominantly Jewish districts of Budapest. Her daughter Eva Striker later became Koestler's lover, and they remained friends all his life. The outbreak of World War I in deprived Koestler's father of foreign suppliers and his business collapsed. Facing destitution, the family moved temporarily to a boarding house in Vienna. When the war ended, the family returned to Budapest. As noted in Koestler's autobiography, he and his family were sympathetic to the short-lived Hungarian Bolshevik Revolution of Though the small soap factory owned at the time by Koestler's father was nationalised, the elder Koestler was appointed its director by the revolutionary government and was well-paid. He fondly recalled the hopes for a better future he had felt as a teenager in revolutionary Budapest. Later the Koestlers witnessed the temporary occupation of Budapest by the Romanian Army and then the White Terror under the right-wing regime of Admiral Horthy. In the family returned to Vienna, where Henrik set up a successful new import business. In September Arthur enrolled in the University of Vienna \[ 10 \] to study engineering, and joined a Zionist duelling student fraternity, 'Unitas. In March he wrote a letter to his parents telling them that he was going to Mandate Palestine for a year to work as an assistant engineer in a factory, in order to gain experience to help him obtain a job in Austria. On 1 April he left Vienna for Palestine. For a few weeks Koestler lived in a kibbutz , but his application to join the collective Kvutzat Heftziba was rejected by its members. Frequently penniless and starving, he often depended on friends and acquaintances for survival. Later that year, through a friend, Koestler obtained the position of Middle East correspondent for the prestigious Berlin-based Ullstein-Verlag group of newspapers. He returned to Jerusalem, where for the next two years he produced detailed political essays, as well as some lighter reportage, for his principal employer and for other newspapers. He was resident at this time at 29 Rehov Hanevi'im, in Jerusalem. As noted in his autobiography, he came to realise that he would never really fit into Palestine's Zionist Jewish community, the Yishuv , and particularly that he would not be able to have a journalistic career in Hebrew. In June , while on leave in Berlin, Koestler successfully lobbied at Ullstein for a transfer away from Palestine. In , he was called to Berlin and appointed science editor of the Vossische Zeitung and science adviser to the Ullstein newspaper empire. Koestler was the only journalist on board: his live wireless broadcasts, and subsequent articles and lecture tours throughout Europe, brought him further attention. In , Koestler, encouraged by Eva Striker , and impressed by the achievements of the Soviet Union, became a supporter of Marxism-Leninism. On 31 December , he applied for membership of the Communist Party of Germany. Koestler concluded that Liberals and moderate Democrats could not stand up against the rising Nazi tide and that the Communists were the only real counter-force. In the early s, Koestler moved to the Soviet Union. At the time, the Ukrainian SSR was in the middle of a catastrophic man-made famine. Much later he would describe how in the train station of Kharkiv , '\[Ukrainian peasant women\] held up to the carriage windows horrible infants with enormous wobbling heads, sticklike limbs, and swollen, pointed bellies' as a result of the widespread malnutrition. Nevertheless, at this time he remained a convinced Soviet sympathiser, and echoing the official version of events by the Soviet government, he claimed that those starving were 'enemies of the people who preferred begging to work. Only the German version, extensively censored, was published in an edition for German-speaking Soviet citizens. As a result of Adolf Hitler's rise to power in January , Koestler was no longer able to visit Germany. Koestler left the Soviet Union in , and in September of that year he returned to Paris and for the next two years was active in anti-Fascist movements. In Koestler married Dorothy Ascher , a fellow Communist activist. They separated amicably in In , during the Spanish Civil War , he undertook a visit to General Francisco Franco 's headquarters in Seville on behalf of the Comintern , pretending to be a Franco sympathiser and using credentials from the London daily News Chronicle as cover. He collected evidence of the direct involvement of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany on Franco's side, which at that time the Nationalist rebels were still trying to conceal. He was eventually exchanged for a 'high value' Nationalist prisoner held by the Loyalists, the wife of one of Franco's ace fighter pilots. Koestler was one of the few authors to have been sentenced to death, an experience he wrote about in Dialogue with Death. As he noted in his autobiography, his estranged wife Dorothy Ascher had greatly contributed to saving his life by intensive, months-long lobbying on his behalf in Britain. When he went to Britain after his release, the couple tried to resume their marriage, but Koestler's gratitude to her proved an insufficient foundation for a daily life together. Koestler returned to France, where he agreed to write a sex encyclopaedia to earn money to live on. Costler, A. Willy, and Others'. In July Koestler finished work on his novel The Gladiators. Later that year he resigned from the Communist Party and started work on a new novel, which was published in London under the title Darkness at Noon In Koestler met and formed an attachment to the British sculptor Daphne Hardy. They lived together in Paris, and she translated the manuscript of Darkness at Noon from German into English in early She smuggled it out of France when they left ahead of the German occupation and arranged for its publication after reaching London that year. He attempted to turn himself in to the authorities as a foreign national several times and was finally arrested on 2 October The French government first detained Koestler at Stade Roland Garros until he was moved to Le Vernet Internment Camp among other 'undesirable aliens', most of them refugees. Milicent Bagot , an intelligence officer at MI5 , recommended his release from Camp Vernet, but said that he should not be granted a British visa. Shortly before the German invasion of France, Koestler joined the French Foreign Legion in order to get out of the country. He deserted in North Africa and tried to return to England. He heard a false report that the ship on which Hardy was travelling had sunk, and that she and his manuscript were lost. He attempted suicide , but survived. Arriving in the UK without an entry permit, Koestler was imprisoned pending examination of his case. He was still in prison when Daphne Hardy's English translation of his book Darkness at Noon was published in early Immediately after Koestler was released, he volunteered for Army service. While awaiting his call-up papers, between January and March , he wrote his memoir Scum of the Earth , the first book he wrote in English. For the next twelve months he served in the Pioneer Corps. In March Koestler was assigned to the Ministry of Information , where he worked as a scriptwriter for propaganda broadcasts and films. He also wrote several essays, which were subsequently collected and published in The Yogi and the Commissar. Daphne Hardy, who had been doing war work in Oxford, joined Koestler in London in , but they parted company a few months later. They remained good friends until Koestler's death. There he had a clandestine meeting with Menachem Begin , the head of the Irgun paramilitary organisation, who was wanted by the British and had a pound bounty on his head. Koestler tried to persuade him to abandon militant attacks and accept a two-state solution for Palestine, but failed. Staying in Palestine until August , Koestler collected material for his next novel, Thieves in the Night. When he returned to England, Mamaine Paget, whom he had started to see before going out to Palestine, was waiting for him. Over the next three years, Koestler became a close friend of writer George Orwell. The region had its own intellectual circle, which would have been sympathetic to Koestler: Williams-Ellis' wife, Amabel , a niece of Lytton Strachey , was also a former communist; other associates included Rupert Crawshay-Williams , Michael Polanyi , Storm Jameson and, most significantly, Bertrand Russell , who lived close by. In , when war broke out between the newly declared State of Israel and the neighbouring Arab states, Koestler was accredited by several newspapers, American, British and French, and travelled to Israel. They arrived in Israel on 4 June and stayed there until October. News that his long-pending application for British nationality had been granted reached him in France in late December; early in he returned to London to swear the oath of allegiance to the British Crown. In January Koestler and Paget moved to a house he had bought in France. The latter book received poor reviews in both the U. In he also published the non-fiction Insight and Outlook. This too received lukewarm reviews. In July Koestler began work on Arrow in the Blue , the first volume of his autobiography. He hired a new part-time secretary, Cynthia Jefferies, who replaced Daphne Woodward. In the autumn he started work on The Age of Longing , on which he continued to work until mid Koestler had reached agreement with his first wife, Dorothy, on an amicable divorce, and their marriage was dissolved on 15 December In the autumn he went to the United States on a lecture tour, during which he lobbied for permanent resident status in the U. He intended to live there at least for part of each year. Koestler donated all his royalties from the play to a fund he had set up to help struggling authors, the Fund for Intellectual Freedom FIF. Senate to grant Koestler permanent residence in the U. In the last of Koestler's political works, The Age of Longing , was published. In it he examined the political landscape of post-war Europe and the problems facing the continent. In August his marriage to Mamaine collapsed. They separated, but remained close until her sudden and unexpected death in June Koestler decided to make his permanent home in Britain. The first two volumes of his autobiography, Arrow in the Blue , which covers his life up to December when he joined the German Communist Party, and The Invisible Writing , which covers the years to , were published in and , respectively. A collection of essays, The Trail of the Dinosaur and Other Essays , on the perils he saw facing western civilisation, was published in On 13 April Janine Graetz, with whom Koestler had an on-off relationship over a period of years, gave birth to his daughter Cristina. Early in he arranged for Cynthia Jeffries to have an abortion when she became pregnant; it was then illegal. In July he started work on Reflections on Hanging. Although Koestler resumed work on a biography of Kepler in , it was not published until In the interim it was entitled The Sleepwalkers. The emphasis of the book had changed and broadened to 'A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe', which also became the book's subtitle. Copernicus and Galileo were added to Kepler as the major subjects of the book. Later in , as a consequence of the Hungarian Uprising , Koestler became busy organising anti-Soviet meetings and protests. In June Koestler gave a lecture at a symposium in Alpbach , Austria, and fell in love with the village. He bought land there, had a house built, and for the next twelve years used it as a place for summer vacations and for organising symposia. In May he had a hernia operation. Based on his travels, he wrote the book The Lotus and the Robot. In early , on his way back from a conference in San Francisco, Koestler interrupted his journey at the University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , where some experimental research was going on with hallucinogens. He tried psilocybin and had a 'bad trip'. Later, when he arrived at Harvard to see Timothy Leary , he experimented with more drugs, but was not enthusiastic about that experience either. In , along with his agent, A D Peters and the editor of The Observer , David Astor , Koestler set up a scheme to encourage prison inmates to engage in arts activities and to reward their efforts. Koestler Arts supports over 7, entrants from UK prisons each year and awards prizes in fifty different artforms. Koestler's book The Act of Creation was published in May In November he undertook a lecture tour of various universities in California. In he married Cynthia in New York; \[ 59 \] they moved to California, where he participated in a series of seminars at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Koestler spent most of and the early months of working on The Ghost in the Machine. In his article 'Return Trip to Nirvana', published in in the Sunday Telegraph , Koestler wrote about the drug culture and his own experiences with hallucinogens. The article also challenged the conclusion about mescaline experience in Aldous Huxley 's The Doors of Perception. In April Koestler was awarded the Sonning Prize 'for \[his\] outstanding contribution to European culture'. The Ghost in the Machine was published in August of same year and in the autumn he received an honorary doctorate from Queen's University, Kingston , Canada. In the later part of November the Koestlers flew to Australia for a number of television appearances and press interviews. Early in Koestler was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. The trembling of his hand made writing progressively more difficult. That same year saw the publication of The Thirteenth Tribe , which presents his Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry. In he was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. His final book, Kaleidoscope , containing essays from Drinkers of Infinity and The Heel of Achilles: Essays — , with some later pieces and stories, was published in During the final years of his life, Koestler, Brian Inglis and Tony Bloomfield established the KIB Society named from the initials of their surnames to sponsor research 'outside the scientific orthodoxies'. After his death it was renamed The Koestler Foundation. In his capacity as vice-president of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society , later renamed Exit, Koestler wrote a pamphlet on suicide, outlining the case both for and against, with a section dealing specifically with how best to do it. Koestler and Cynthia killed themselves on the evening of 1 March at their London home, 8 Montpelier Square, with overdoses of the barbiturate Tuinal taken with alcohol. Koestler had stated more than once that he was afraid, not of being dead, but of the process of dying. Shortly before his suicide his doctor had discovered a swelling in the groin which indicated a metastasis of the cancer. Koestler's suicide note: \[ 78 \]. The purpose of this note is to make it unmistakably clear that I intend to commit suicide by taking an overdose of drugs without the knowledge or aid of any other person. The drugs have been legally obtained and hoarded over a considerable period. Trying to commit suicide is a gamble the outcome of which will be known to the gambler only if the attempt fails, but not if it succeeds. Should this attempt fail and I survive it in a physically or mentally impaired state, in which I can no longer control what is done to me, or communicate my wishes, I hereby request that I be allowed to die in my own home and not be resuscitated or kept alive by artificial means. I further request that my wife, or a physician, or any friend present, should invoke habeas corpus against any attempt to remove me forcibly from my house to hospital. My reasons for deciding to put an end to my life are simple and compelling: Parkinson's disease and the slow-killing variety of leukaemia CCI. I kept the latter a secret even from intimate friends to save them distress. After a more or less steady physical decline over the last years, the process has now reached an acute state with added complications which make it advisable to seek self-deliverance now, before I become incapable of making the necessary arrangements. I wish my friends to know that I am leaving their company in a peaceful frame of mind, with some timid hopes for a de-personalised after-life beyond due confines of space, time and matter and beyond the limits of our comprehension. This 'oceanic feeling' has often sustained me at difficult moments, and does so now, while I am writing this. What makes it nevertheless hard to take this final step is the reflection of the pain it is bound to inflict on my surviving friends, above all my wife Cynthia. It is to her that I owe the relative peace and happiness that I enjoyed in the last period of my life — and never before. Since the above was written in June , my wife decided that after thirty-four years of working together she could not face life after my death. I fear both death and the act of dying that lies ahead of us. I should have liked to finish my account of working for Arthur — a story which began when our paths happened to cross in However, I cannot live without Arthur, despite certain inner resources. Double suicide has never appealed to me, but now Arthur's incurable diseases have reached a stage where there is nothing else to do. Controversy arose over why Koestler allowed, consented to, or according to some critics compelled his wife's simultaneous suicide. She was only 55 years old and was believed to be in good health. In a typewritten addition to her husband's suicide note, Cynthia wrote that she could not live without her husband. Reportedly, few of the Koestlers' friends were surprised by this admission, apparently perceiving that Cynthia lived her life through her husband and that she had no 'life of her own'. All their friends were troubled by what Julian Barnes calls 'the unmentionable, half-spoken question' of Koestler's responsibility for Cynthia's actions. And 'if he didn't bully her into it, why didn't he bully her out of it? The trustees of the estate had great difficulty finding a university willing to establish such a chair. Eventually the trustees reached agreement with the University of Edinburgh to set up a chair in accordance with Koestler's request. Koestler's relations with women have been a source of controversy. David Cesarani alleged in his biography of Koestler, published in , that Koestler had been a serial rapist, citing the case of the British feminist writer Jill Craigie who said that she had been his victim in Feminist protesters forced the removal of his bust from Edinburgh University. Claims that Koestler had been violent were added by Craigie later, although Scammell concedes that Koestler could be rough and sexually aggressive. Some critics believed that Cesarani's claims of Koestler having been a 'serial rapist' were unfounded; in his review of Cesarani's biography in The New York Times , the historian Mark Mazower observed: 'Even those who applaud Cesarani for bringing the rape issue forward may wonder whether his approach is not too one-sided to make for a convincing portrait. Koestler was a domineering man. But he attracted women and many remained close friends after they had slept with him. It is implausible to write them all off as masochists, as Cesarani effectively does. Some broke with him; but then so did many other friends and acquaintances. Cesarani and others claim that Koestler had misogynistic tendencies. He engaged in numerous sexual affairs and generally treated the women in his life badly. It is difficult to think of a single important twentieth-century intellectual who did not cross paths with Arthur Koestler, or a single important twentieth-century intellectual movement that Koestler did not either join or oppose. From progressive education and Freudian psychoanalysis through Zionism , communism , and existentialism to psychedelic drugs , parapsychology , and euthanasia , Koestler was fascinated by every philosophical fad, serious and unserious, political and apolitical, of his era. Koestler wrote several major novels, two volumes of autobiographical works, two volumes of reportage, a major work on the history of science, several volumes of essays, and a considerable body of other writing and articles on subjects as varied as genetics, euthanasia, Eastern mysticism, neurology, chess, evolution, psychology, the paranormal and more. Darkness at Noon was one of the most influential anti-Soviet books ever written. Koestler embraced a multitude of political as well as non-political issues. Zionism , communism , anti-communism , voluntary euthanasia , abolition of capital punishment, particularly hanging , and the abolition of quarantine for dogs being reimported into the United Kingdom are examples. In his book The Case of the Midwife Toad Koestler defended the biologist Paul Kammerer , who claimed to have found experimental support for Lamarckian inheritance. According to Koestler, Kammerer's experiments on the midwife toad may have been tampered with by a Nazi sympathiser at the University of Vienna. Koestler came to the conclusion that a kind of modified 'Mini-Lamarckism' may explain some rare evolutionary phenomena. Koestler criticised neo-Darwinism in a number of his books, but he was not opposed to the theory of evolution in general terms. In addition to his specific critiques of neo-Darwinism, Koestler was opposed to what he saw as dangerous scientific reductionism more generally, including the behaviourism school of psychology, promoted in particular by B. Skinner during the s. Waddington , W. Thorpe and Ludwig von Bertalanffy , for a meeting at his retreat in Alpbach in This was one of many attempts which Koestler made to gain acceptance within the mainstream of science, a strategy which brought him into conflict with individuals such as Peter Medawar who saw themselves as defending the integrity of science from outsiders. Mysticism and a fascination with the paranormal imbued much of Koestler's later work and he discussed paranormal phenomena, such as extrasensory perception, psychokinesis and telepathy. In his book The Roots of Coincidence \[ 97 \] he claims that such phenomena can never be explained by theoretical physics. He also presents critically the related concepts of Carl Jung. More controversial were Koestler's studies and experiments on levitation and telepathy. Koestler was Jewish by birth, but he did not practise the religion. In an interview published in the British newspaper The Jewish Chronicle in he argued that Jews should either emigrate to Israel or assimilate completely into the majority cultures they lived in. In The Thirteenth Tribe Koestler advanced a theory that Ashkenazi Jews are descended, not from the Israelites of antiquity, but from the Khazars , a Turkic people in the Caucasus that converted to Judaism in the 8th century and was later forced westwards. Koestler argued that a proof that Ashkenazi Jews have no biological connection to biblical Jews would remove the racial basis of European anti-Semitism. In reference to the Balfour Declaration Koestler stated, 'one nation solemnly promised to a second nation the country of a third. Koestler enjoyed strong personal relationships with IRD agents from onwards, and was supportive of the department's anti-communist goals. Koestler's relationship with the British government was so strong that he had become a de facto advisor to British propagandists, urging them to create a popular series of anti-communist left-wing literature to rival the success of the Left Book Club. Koestler first learned Hungarian , but later his family spoke mostly German at home. From his early years he became fluent in both languages. It is likely that he picked up some Yiddish too, through contact with his grandfather. During his years in Palestine Koestler became sufficiently fluent in Hebrew to write stories in that language, as well as to create what is believed to have been the world's first Hebrew crossword puzzle. Koestler wrote his books in German up to , but then wrote only in English. Koestler is said to have coined the word mimophant to describe Bobby Fischer. In August Koestler was in Palestine where he read in the Palestine Post about the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikiquote. Hungarian-British author and journalist — For the book by Mark Levene, see Arthur Koestler book. Darkness at Noon The Thirteenth Tribe. Sonning Prize CBE Life \[ edit \]. Origins and early life \[ edit \]. Palestine, Paris, Berlin and polar flight, — \[ edit \]. War years \[ edit \]. Post-war years \[ edit \]. Later life, — \[ edit \]. Final years, — \[ edit \]. Personal life and allegations \[ edit \]. Influence and legacy \[ edit \]. Politics and causes \[ edit \]. Science \[ edit \]. Paranormal \[ edit \]. Judaism \[ edit \]. Collaboration with the Information Research Department \[ edit \]. Languages \[ edit \]. Quotes \[ edit \]. Published works \[ edit \]. Fiction novels \[ edit \]. Drama \[ edit \]. Autobiographical writings \[ edit \]. Other non-fiction \[ edit \]. Writings as a contributor \[ edit \]. See also \[ edit \]. Herbert A. Simon — American political scientist — Holarchy — Something that is simultaneously a whole and a part Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Holism — A system as a whole, not just its parts Holon philosophy — Something that is simultaneously a whole and a part Janus — Roman god Politics in fiction — Literary genre Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Information Research Department. References \[ edit \]. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Stranger on the Square. London: Hutchinson. ISBN Cited as 'ACK'. New York: Random House. Retrieved 15 February Washington, D. The invisible writing : the second volume of an autobiography: Random House. OCLC Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Basic Books. Retrieved 2 September The London Gazette Supplement. Hum Biol. PMID S2CID Genome Biology and Evolution. PMC The Independent. Arthur Koestler: The Story of a Friendship. This information is in the public domain. Archived from the original on 1 March Retrieved 13 December Retrieved 19 July The New York Times. London Review of Books. Archived from the original on 26 December Retrieved 8 January BBC News. Norton, Arthur Koestler Thinks So'. Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. Notes and Records of the Royal Society. Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind. Free Press; Da Capo Press; 28 February University of Exeter Press; Science Confronts the Paranormal. Promise and Fulfillment. Ramage Press. A member of this species is sensitive like a mimosa where his own feelings are concerned and thick-skinned like an elephant trampling over the feelings of others. Archived from the original on 7 November Retrieved 21 June Archived from the original on 6 November Further reading \[ edit \]. Biographies of Koestler \[ edit \]. Books on Koestler's Oeuvre \[ edit \]. External links \[ edit \]. Arthur Koestler at Wikipedia's sister projects. Arthur Koestler. Recipients of the Sonning Prize. Denis Tamiris Wiesenthal Wigman. Authority control databases. Trove Deutsche Biographie. 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