The Act of Creation
- ISBN-10
- 0140191917
- ISBN-13
- 9780140191912
- Category
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Pages
- 756
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1964
- Publisher
- Penguin (Non-Classics)
- Author
- Arthur Koestler
Description
The author examines the idea that we are at our most creative when rational thought is suspended-for example, in dreams and trancelike states.
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