Timeline for In what sense do The Gladiators, Darkness at Noon, and Arrival and Departure form a trilogy?
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| Jul 3 at 20:42 | history | edited | Tsundoku | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Add quote from The Invisible Writing.
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| Feb 22, 2023 at 17:43 | history | edited | Tsundoku | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Add section on defintion of trilogy/
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| Feb 22, 2023 at 17:23 | comment | added | Tsundoku | The term trilogy is sufficient loose to include works connected by a common theme: "Other fiction trilogies are connected only by theme: for example, each film of Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colours trilogy explores one of the political ideals of the French Republic (liberty, equality, fraternity)." In the case of Koestler and of Kieślowski's film trilogy, authorial intent seems to play a role. | |
| Feb 22, 2023 at 17:20 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor♦ | This is what I guessed, and good to know that Koestler himself referred to the books as a trilogy, but why is a common theme enough to call them a trilogy? Surely other authors have written multiple books on a particular philosophical theme without considering them part of a single series? | |
| Feb 22, 2023 at 17:17 | history | answered | Tsundoku | CC BY-SA 4.0 |