- Politics and government, Addresses, essays, lectures, Literature, World War, 1939-1945
**The Yogi and the Commissar** (1945) is a collection of essays of Arthur Koestler, divided in three parts: Meanderings, Exhortations and Explorations. In the first two parts he has collected essays written from 1942 to 1945 and the third part was written especially for this book.
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- Author
- Arthur Koestler
- First published
- 1945
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Bechtle, Suhrkamp Verlag, Macmillan
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- German, French, Dutch, English
- ISBN
- 9783518066584
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Arthur Koestler CBE was a prolific writer of essays, novels and autobiographies. He was born into a Hungarian Jewish family in Budapest but, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. His early career was in journalism. In 1931 he joined the Communist Party of Germany but, disillusioned, he resigned from it in 1938 and in 1940 published a devastating anti-Communist novel, Darkness at Noon, which propelled him to instant international fame. ([Source][1]) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Koestler
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