by Czeslaw Milosz · Publicacions de la Universitat de València · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437061009
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The Captive Mind is a fundamental essay by Polish author Czeslaw Milosz, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In this work, the author performs an implacable dissection of the mechanisms of social domination through ideas, focusing on Poland under Soviet rule. The book transcends its historical context to become a universal allegory about human complexity, the dignity of doubt, and resistance against dogmatic thinking.
Czesław Miłosz was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. He primarily wrote his poetry in Polish. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Swedish Academy called Miłosz a writer who "voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts".
