The Captive Mind (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Czesław Miłosz
- First Published: 1953
- Type of Work: Cultural criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Intellectuals, Politics, Manners or customs, Social life, Lifestyles, Government, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans
Form and Content
Czesław Miłosz was born of Polish parents in Russian Lithuania, an area annexed by Poland after that country’s restoration to independence in 1918. Trained in law and literature, he was a member of an avant-garde circle of Polish poets dubbed the Second Vanguard from the early 1930’s until the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939. During World War II he was active in the Polish Underground. After the war, although never a Communist, he became a member of the postwar government, serving as cultural attache to the Polish embassies in Washington, D.C., and Paris...
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