Czesław Miłosz
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Czesław Miłosz was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, t
Miłosz in 1999
Czesław Miłosz, third row from top and fourth from left, with fellow students, Stefan Batory University, Wilno, 1930
Czesław Miłosz (right) with brother Andrzej Miłosz at PEN Club World Congress, Warsaw, May 1999
German troops setting fire to Warsaw buildings, 1944
The Captive Mind
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The Captive Mind is a 1953 work of nonfiction by Polish writer, poet, academic and Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz. It was first published in English in a translation by Jane Zielonko in 1953.
Czesław Miłosz
…at the University of California, Berkeley. His poetry (particularly about his wartime experiences) and his appraisal of Stalinism in a prose book, The Captive Mind, brought him renown as a leading émigré artist and intellectual. Throughout his life and work, Miłosz tackled questions of morality, politics, history…
First US edition