Yogi and Commissar

Arthur Koestler

Original title: The Yogi and the Commissar

Translated by Friedrich Klumpp earliest edition we have, 1945 Suhrkamp Verlag, 1974 paperback 276 pages

Suhrkamp taschenbuch — book 158

**The Yogi and the Commissar** (1945) is a collection of essays of Arthur Koestler, divided in three parts: Meanderings, Exhortations and Explorations. In the first two parts he has collected essays written from 1942 to 1945 and the third part was written especially for this book. In the title essay, Koestler proposes a continuum of philosophies for achieving "heaven on earth", from the Commissar at the materialist,...

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Editions we hold

YOGI AND COMMISSAR edition · 1987 · Random House UK Distribution · 256 pages · 9780224603881
The Yogi and the Commissar: And Other Essays paperback · 1983 · Arrow (A Division of Random House Group) · 232 pages · 9780091531812
Der Yogi und der Kommissar paperback · 1974 · Suhrkamp Verlag · 276 pages · 9783518066584
The Yogi and the Commissar and Other Essays hardcover · 1965 · Hutchinson & Co., LTD. · 232 pages · 9780090757909
Koestler Yogi and the Commissar.jcp.18 edition · 1945 · Jonathan Cape · 256 pages · 9780224604574

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