The captive mind
Today I present a book published in 1953 in France by the Polish writer Czesław Miłosz. It was written in the early 1950s, at the height of Stalinism. He wrote the book shortly after he was granted political asylum in Paris due to the authorities in Poland. The book talks about the author's experiences while living in underground circles in Poland during World War II, his position and the status of other Polish intellectuals in the post-war years, as well as thoughts of tempting collaboration with the Stalinist regime among intellectuals in Eastern Europe. In the book, the author deals with a difficult-to-understand phenomenon - beliefs in utopia. The author describes socialism, communism and as a witness to the Nazi crimes in Poland, the Holocaust, the gulag and the Soviet dictatorship in Eastern Europe, the author writes about the tragic events of that time.
"The average citizen of these countries is unaware of the fact that some attic painter or author of incomprehensible verses, or a disparaged musician, are wizards who give shape to everything they value in life." 
"He distilled his sentences."Czesław Miłosz (30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. He won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature and his other awards are Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1978), National Medal of Arts (1989), Order of the White Eagle (1994) and Nike Award (1998).
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