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PART ONE A LONG APPRENTICESHIP |
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The Author as Journalist (1905-1936) |
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Chapter Two A Budapest Childhood |
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13 | (10) |
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Chapter Three Rise, Jew, Rise |
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23 | (10) |
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33 | (13) |
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Chapter Five A RUNAWAY AND A FUGITIVE |
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46 | (10) |
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Chapter Six First Steps in Journalism |
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56 | (10) |
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Chapter Seven Hello to Berlin |
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66 | (11) |
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Chapter Eight In the Gale of History |
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77 | (11) |
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88 | (13) |
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Chapter Ten Anti-Fascist Crusader |
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101 | (15) |
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Chapter Eleven Marking Time |
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116 | (9) |
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Chapter Twelve Prisoner of Franco |
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125 | (15) |
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Chapter Thirteen Turning Point |
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140 | (15) |
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The Author as Novelist (1936-1946) |
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Chapter Fourteen The God that Failed |
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155 | (9) |
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Chapter Fifteen No New Certainties |
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164 | (9) |
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Chapter Sixteen Darkness visible |
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173 | (10) |
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Chapter Seventeen Scum of the Earth |
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183 | (10) |
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Chapter Eighteen Darkness Unveiled |
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193 | (10) |
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Chapter Nineteen In Crumpled Battledress |
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203 | (11) |
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Chapter Twenty The Novelist's Temptations |
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214 | (13) |
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Chapter Twenty-One Identity crisis |
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227 | (11) |
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Chapter Twenty-Two Commissar Or Yogi? |
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238 | (12) |
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Chapter Twenty-Three Return to Palestine |
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250 | (12) |
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Chapter Twenty-Four Welsh Interlude |
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262 | (11) |
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Chapter Twenty-Five The logic of the Ice Age |
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PART THREE LOST ILLUSIONS |
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The Author as Activist (1946-1959) |
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Chapter Twenty-Six Adventures Among the Existentialists |
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287 | (12) |
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Chapter Twenty-Seven French Lessons |
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299 | (14) |
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Chapter Twenty-Eight Discovering America |
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313 | (12) |
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Chapter Twenty-Nine Farewell to Zionism |
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325 | (12) |
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Chapter Thirty A Married Man |
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337 | (13) |
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Chapter Thirty-One To the Barricades |
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350 | (12) |
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Chapter Thirty-Two The Congress for Cultural Freedom |
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362 | (9) |
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Chapter Thirty-Three Back to the USA |
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371 | (11) |
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Chapter Thirty-Four Politically Unreliable |
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382 | (12) |
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Chapter Thirty-Five The Language of Destiny |
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394 | (10) |
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Chapter Thirty-Six The Phantom Chase |
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404 | (15) |
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Chapter Thirty-Seven I killed Her |
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419 | (8) |
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Chapter Thirty-Eight Cassandra Grows Hoarse |
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427 | (16) |
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Chapter Thirty-Nine Matters of Life and Death |
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443 | (14) |
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PART FOUR ASTRIDE THE TWO CULTURES |
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The Author as Polymath (1959-1983) |
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Chapter Forty Cosmic Reporter |
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457 | (13) |
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Chapter Forty-One The Squire of Alpbach |
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470 | (8) |
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Chapter Forty-Two Retreat from Rationalism? |
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478 | (11) |
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Chapter Forty-Three A Naive and Skeptical Disposition |
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489 | (13) |
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Chapter Forty-Four Seeking a Cure |
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502 | (14) |
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Chapter Forty-Five Wunderkind |
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516 | (11) |
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Chapter Forty-Six Chance Governs All |
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527 | (12) |
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Chapter Forty-Seven The-koestler Problem |
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539 | (12) |
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Chapter Forty-Eight An Easy Way of Dying |
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551 | (15) |
| Epilogue |
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566 | (7) |
| Acknowledgments |
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573 | (6) |
| Select bibliography |
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579 | (8) |
| Notes and sources |
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587 | (80) |
| Index |
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