The Seizure of Power (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Czesław Miłosz
- First Published: 1953
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Political
- Time of Work: 1944-1950
- Setting: Warsaw and elsewhere in Poland
- Genres: Long fiction, Political fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Communism or communists, 1940’s, World War II, Anti-Semitism, Nazism or Nazis, Germany or German people, Poland or Polish people
- Locales: Warsaw, Poland
Characters Discussed
Peter Kwinto (KWIHN-toh), a young intellectual and journalist who writes for the Polish Workers’ Party. Although he is of Italian descent, Peter was reared in Poland under his mother’s guidance, and he is in Warsaw when the Polish underground rebels against the Nazis. Peter is disillusioned when the Soviet army fails to support the Warsaw uprising, and he watches, helpless and in shock, as the Germans obliterate his hometown. After World War II is over, the Soviet Union is allowed to occupy Poland, and Peter becomes angry with himself for succumbing to...
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