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fesses that-"I like dining with women, talking, listening and making
love to women-but to write about them bores me stiff." There is very
little of the artist in Koestler ; he is much more interested in
causes
than in human beings.
As a chronicle of our times
Arrow in the Blue
has a certain inter–
est. The settings are many and various: childhood in Buda Pest; Berlin
during the Weimar Republic; Haifa and Tel Aviv, and the curious,
truly
communist
community life of a
KVUTZA,
or settlement, in the
early days of the Zionist State; Paris in the late 1920s; an interview
with King Feisal of Iraq ; and, finally, a flight over the polar regions
in
the
Graf Zeppelin;
yes, surely a fascinating chronicle. And Koestler
makes a genuine attempt to be honest about himself.
It
is far from
an effort at self-glorification. He writes, for example, in chapter four:
"All my earliest memories seem to group themselves about three domin–
ant themes: guilt, fear, and loneliness." And he describes the ordeal
of a tonsillectomy in childhood, when he first knew the horror of utter
helplessness that was to play such a large part in his later life, and
also in his work, notably in his best novel,
Darkness at Noon.
"When,
years later," he writes, "I fell into the hands of the regime which
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dreaded and detested most, and was led in handcuffs through a hostile
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