The Age of Longing: A novel by Arthur Koestler
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Overview: The Age of Longing is a highly sophisticated talkfest on “these messy times,” its scene Paris in “the middle nineteen-fifties,” on the eve of war with the “Commonwealth of Freedom Loving People.” Its contents consist in part of exasperated farce and mostly of stately “brilliant” epigrams on the impotence of all present classes, ideas, and intellectuals before the Communist threat to the West. The characters, though several are well-known French and British intellectuals, have been so consciously contrived as “symbols,” and each in his turn is so mercilessly clever and all-knowing a vocal representation of The Old Bolshevik, The Literary Ex-Communist, The Apocalyptic Madman, The Young American Abroad in Search of Something-Real-To-Believe-In, The Soviet Diplomat, etc., that the book reads like an anthology of all the desperately bright café sayings that have been and will be uttered by intellectuals more interested in possessing an ideology than in thinking.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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