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Name: The Captive Mind
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Author: Czesław Miłosz

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.

First publish date: 1990

Authors: Czesław Miłosz

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