Patricia M. reviewed on 9/22/2007 + 52 more book reviews

This book stands as an unequaled fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has decicated his life. As the pressure to confess proposterous crimes increases, he re-lives a career that imbodies the terrible ironies and human betrayals of a totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance. Almost unbearably vivid in its depiction of one man's solitary agony, DARKNESS AT NOON, asks questions about ends and means that have relevance not only for the past but for the perilous present. It is-as the TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT-has declared "A remarkable book, a grimly fascinating interpetation of the logic of the Russian Revolution, indeed of all revolutionary dictatorships, and at the same time a tense and subtly intellecturalized drama..."
..taken from the back cover of the book

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