The Seizure of Power

Name: The Seizure of Power
Author: Czeslaw Milosz

by Czeslaw Milosz

Polish essayistic novel analyzing communism's intellectual seduction and ideological power

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Czeslaw Milosz

Polish-American poet and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in 1980. His poetry engages history, memory, and metaphysics with unusual philosophical range, and The Captive Mind is his most celebrated prose work.

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