Reception
Koester's work was reviewed carefully; accounts were gradually getting to the West about the scale of Stalin's purges and show trials.
The novel was translated into other languages: its French title is Le Zéro et l'Infini ("Zero and Infinity"), representing Koestler's lifelong obsession with the meeting of opposites, and dialectics. Le Zéro et l'Infini sold more than 400,000 copies in France.
The original German text was lost when Koestler fled Paris. German versions, published with the title Sonnenfinsternis (literally "solar eclipse"), have been back translations from the English.
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