Alan Furst Quote
There is an enormous body of literature, fiction and nonfiction, written about the period 1933–1945, so Alan Furst’s recommendations for reading in that era are very specific. He often uses characters who are idealistic intellectuals, particularly French and Russian, who become disillusioned with the Soviet Union but still find themselves caught up in the political warfare of the period. Among the historical figures who wrote about that time, Furst says, Arthur Koestler may well be ‘first among equals.’ Furst suggests Koestler’s Darkness at Noon as a classic story of the European intellectual at midcentury.
Alan Furst
There is an enormous body of literature, fiction and nonfiction, written about the period 1933–1945, so Alan Furst’s recommendations for reading in that era are very specific. He often uses characters who are idealistic intellectuals, particularly French and Russian, who become disillusioned with the Soviet Union but still find themselves caught up in the political warfare of the period. Among the historical figures who wrote about that time, Furst says, Arthur Koestler may well be ‘first among equals.’ Furst suggests Koestler’s Darkness at Noon as a classic story of the European intellectual at midcentury.
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About Alan Furst
Alan Furst (; born 1941) is an American author of historical spy novels. Furst has been called "an heir to the tradition of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene," whom he cites along with Joseph Roth and Arthur Koestler as important influences. Most of his novels since 1988 have been set just prior to or during the Second World War and he is noted for his successful evocations of Eastern European peoples and places during the period from 1933 to 1944.