The Captive Mind

by Czeslaw Milosz

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679728566
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/11/1990
Series:	Vintage International
Edition description:	Vintage International ed
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	108,861
Product dimensions:	5.15(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Czeslaw Milosz was a Polish poet, author, and diplomat. His book The Captive Mind became a classic of anti-Stalinism. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1978 and the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in 2004.

What People are Saying About This

Jerzy Kosinski

A faultlessly perceptive analysis of the moral and historical dilemma we all face...as timely today as when it was first written.