Darkness at Noon

by

Arthur Koestler

Darkness at Noon: The Third Hearing: 5 Summary & Analysis

Summary
Analysis
In another fragment from Rubashov’s diary, he compares his generation to the apes that looked mockingly on the first Neanderthals and their barbaric ways, a relapse of history.
Rubashov imagines a comparable historical irony, in which one group is destroyed because of its complacent mockery of a new generation.
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