The Captive Mind
$40.02
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
22 February 1991
Summary
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679728566 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0679728562 |
| Author: | Czeslaw Milosz, Czesaw Miosz |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 22 February 1991 |
| Weight: | 193g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 131mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Vintage International (Paperback) |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“A central text in the modern effort to understand totalitarianism.”–The New York Times Book Review
“As timely today as when it was written.”–Jerzy Kosinski
“The Captive Mind is the most important soul-searching ever published about… [the] love-hate ambivalence between communism and uprooted intellectuals.”–The New York Times
About The Author
Czeslaw Milosz
Czeslaw Milosz was born in Szetejnie, Lithuania, in 1911. He worked with the Polish resistance movement in Warsaw during World War II and was later stationed in Paris and Washington, D.C., as a Polish cultural attaché. He defected to France in 1951, and in 1960 he accepted a position at the University.
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