Name: The Captive Mind
ISBN: 9780140189278

Czesław Miłosz

The Captive Mind

The best known prose work by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right.

Sarah Sammis

Simon Elliott Stegall

The bourgeoisie of Warsaw didn't stop writing poetry when the Russians absorbed a ruined Poland in 1945 and replaced Nazism with Stalinism; but they allowed their words to be warped by the vast machine of state into an extension of its ubiquitous scepter. Czeslaw Milosz, a Polish poet who chose to be expatriated rather than ventriloquized, documents the changes an artist must willingly undergo in order to become a cheerful, if miserable, puppet of the state. A dark yet hopeful jeremiad.

The Captive Mind

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