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The Hot-House Atmosphere of Cell Number 40[4]: Space and Identity in Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon

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Abstract

Space codetermines the identity crisis of Arthur Koestler’s protagonist in Darkness at Noon. The prison cell, which also features in Koestler’s autobiographical Dialogue with Death, heavily impacts three aspects of the crisis: the protagonist’s resistance to the ruling ‘we’ in communist ideology, his attempt to find a personal view on life, and his surrender to mysticism. Using theoretical concepts such as liminality, heterotopia, and panopticism, the article examines the spatial components in relation to each aspect of the identity crisis.

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Published Online: 2014-6-6
Published in Print: 2014-6-1

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