Arrival and Departure (Paperback, Reissue)

This is the story of Peter Slavek, Balkan revolutionary who has become a hero, now - after three years of torture and jail-safe in a neutral European country and determined to fight with the allies. There he meets and falls in love with Odette, whose sudden departure for America brings on a nervous collapse. Psychoanalytical guidance takes him through his brutal experiences to roots of his emotional problems in childhood. He decides to rejoin Odette in America, and then at the last moment, joins up as a pilot, this time at last from genuine motives of sacrifice. Koestler writes for a discriminating but definitely intellectual audience. This is another intensely psychological, disturbingly analytical study of the illusions and escapes upon which the anatomy of martyrdom too often rests. (Kirkus Reviews)

This was the third novel of Arthur Koestler's trilogy on ends and means - the other two are THE GLADIATORS and DARKNESS AT NOON - and the first he wrote in English. The central theme is the conflict between morality and expediency, and in this novel Koestler worked it out in terms of individual psychology. Peter Slavek starts out as a brave young revolutionary, but suffers a breakdown. On the analyst's couch he is made to discover, in Koestler's own words, 'that his crusading zeal was derived from unconcious guilt'.

General

Imprint:	Vintage Classics
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 1999
Authors:	Arthur Koestler
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	192
Edition:	Reissue
ISBN-13:	978-0-09-951541-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-09-951541-5
Barcode:	9780099515418

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