The Call-Girls: A Tragi-Comedy With Prologue And Epilogue
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Staining on block otherwise fine.
A sharp and satirical work of literary fiction, The Call-Girls: A Tragi-Comedy With Prologue And Epilogue presents a biting critique of the modern intellectual establishment through the lens of a fictional symposium. Arthur Koestler chronicles the gathering of a group of prominent thinkers — scientists, philosophers, and social theorists — who are convened at a Swiss mountain retreat to address nothing less than the crisis of human survival. With darkly comic precision, the narrative illustrates how these so-called experts, each wedded to their own ideological frameworks, talk endlessly past one another, producing more heat than light. Koestler argues, with both wit and despair, that the very intelligentsia tasked with saving civilization may be constitutionally incapable of doing so. The tragi-comic tone balances genuine philosophical urgency against a mordant humor that exposes the vanity and tribalism lurking beneath academic discourse, making it a work that is as thought-provoking as it is entertaining.
Author: Arthur Koestler
Format: Hardback
Published: 1972, Hutchinson of London
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Staining on block otherwise fine.
A sharp and satirical work of literary fiction, The Call-Girls: A Tragi-Comedy With Prologue And Epilogue presents a biting critique of the modern intellectual establishment through the lens of a fictional symposium. Arthur Koestler chronicles the gathering of a group of prominent thinkers — scientists, philosophers, and social theorists — who are convened at a Swiss mountain retreat to address nothing less than the crisis of human survival. With darkly comic precision, the narrative illustrates how these so-called experts, each wedded to their own ideological frameworks, talk endlessly past one another, producing more heat than light. Koestler argues, with both wit and despair, that the very intelligentsia tasked with saving civilization may be constitutionally incapable of doing so. The tragi-comic tone balances genuine philosophical urgency against a mordant humor that exposes the vanity and tribalism lurking beneath academic discourse, making it a work that is as thought-provoking as it is entertaining.