A Kessler's Darkness Atnoon

This is one of my favorite twentieth century novels, if not my single favorite twentiethcentr novel. I only read it for the first time ad a couple of years ago. It's about the arrest, interrogation, confession, trial, conviction and then ultimate execution of nikolay rubishov. Rubishov was an old communist. That is to say, he was a first generation communist. He fought in the russian revolution. And the novel tells of his recent past. So this book is about the autobiography, the intellectual autobiography, of an idea. The idea is marxism, laninism, and the way it plays out in practi. But i do think