Description: Darkness At Noon stands as anunequaled fictional portrayal of the nightmarepolitics of our time. Its hero is an agingrevolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured bythe Party to which he has dedicated his life. Asthe pressure to confess preposterous crimesincreases, he re-lives a career that embodies theterrible ironies and human betrayals of a totalitarianmovement masking itself as an instrument ofdeliverance. Almost unbearably vivid in its depiction ofone man's solitary agony, Darkness AtNoon asks questions about ends and meansthat have relevance not only for the past but forthe perilous present. It is--as theTimes Literary Supplement has declared--"Aremarkable book, a grimly fascinatinginterpretation of the logic of the Russian Revolution, indeedof all revolutionary dictatorships, and at thesame time a tense and subtly intellectualizeddrama..."

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