Hungarian-British novelist and essayist who wrote Darkness at Noon — the most powerful fictional account of Stalinist show trials — and subsequently wrote widely on creativity, science, and the paranormal.
Darkness at Noon: a Moscow show-trial prisoner reconciles himself to confession and execution — the most psychologically precise fictional account of ideological capitulation. The God That Failed: his contribution to the anthology of ex-Communist intellectuals' testimonies. The Act of Creation: a theory of creativity based on 'bisociation' — the collision of two matrices of thought.
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