The Rejection

摘要

When arthur kobstier wrote Darkness at Noon in 1940, the events he was fictionalizing had just barely moved from the present tense into the past. The Moscow show trials of 1936-38, wherein Leon Trotsky and his associates were accused of assassination plots merely as a way to justify their murders, not only shocked the world, but shocked the Hungarian writer— who had been such a dedicated communist that he went to Berlin in 1933 and Spain during the Spanish Civil War to act as a spy.