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Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind
by David Cesarani.
Heinemann, 646 pp., £25, November 1998,0 434 11305 0 Show More
by David Cesarani.
Heinemann, 646 pp., £25, November 1998,
“... his life, and which he was convinced was evidence of a reality beyond the visible world. As A.J. Ayer said of him, ‘his mind has displayed a religious rather than a scientific bent,’ while Malcolm Muggeridge felt he was ‘all antennae and no head’. The follies of his old age contributed to the posthumous eclipsing of his reputation – it is hard now ... ”