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  • Published: 22 February 1991
  • ISBN: 9780679728566
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $36.00

Captive Mind



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.

  • Published: 22 February 1991
  • ISBN: 9780679728566
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $36.00

About the author

Czeslaw Milosz

Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. Born in Lithuania while it was still part of the Russian Empire, he lived much of his life in Poland or exiled in California. He was the author of one of the definitive books on totalitarianism, The Captive Mind, but also wrote with extraordinary vividness and moral authority on his childhood, his experiences under Nazism and on the tragedy of Central Europe.

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