The Captive Mind

Czeslaw Milosz, Jane Zielonko

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Polish

Penguin
07 June 2001

Politics & government; Political science & theory

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future.

By: Czeslaw Milosz
Translated by: Jane Zielonko
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 206g
ISBN: 9780141186764
ISBN 10: 0141186763
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 07 June 2001
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Milosz Czeslaw (b. 1911), Polish-American author, translator, and critic who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. Czeslaw Milosz worked with the Polish Resistance movement in Warsaw during World War II and defected to France in 1951. His work brings to bear the political awareness of an exile -- most notably in A Treatise on Poetry, a forty-page exploration of the world wars that rocked the first half of the twentieth century.