Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980
Written in the early 1950s, When Eastern Europe was in the grip of Stalinism and many Western intellectuals placed their hopes in the new order of the East, this classic work reveals in fascinating detail the often beguiling allure its frightening effects on the minds of those who embrace it.
Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980
Written in the early 1950s, When Eastern Europe was in the grip of Stalinism and many Western intellectuals placed their hopes in the new order of the East, this classic work reveals in fascinating detail the often beguiling allure its frightening effects on the minds of those who embrace it.
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.
Czeslaw Milosz was born in Szetejnie, Lithuania, in 1911
Czeslaw Milosz was born in Szetejnie, Lithuania, in 1911. He worked with the Polish resistance movement in Warsaw du. He worked with the Polish resistance movement in Warsaw during World War II and was later stationed in Paris and Washiring World War II and was later stationed in Paris and Washington, D.C., as a Polish cultural attachE. He defected to Frngton, D.C., as a Polish cultural attachE. He defected to France in 1951, and in 1960 he accepted a position at the Univance in 1951, and in 1960 he accepted a position at the Univers
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