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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- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Contributions
- Mapping the Unreal: Max Blecher in the Shadow of the Avant-garde
- On Concepts and Naps
- Reading Machines: On the Surface of Meaning – Beyond the Surface of Discourse
- Paper Trails
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