The Captive Mind
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He is important to read because he's simultaneously critical of his characters and sympathetic to them. It's very difficult, now, to think back into that time, when people had very limited choices. If you chose to oppose the regime, that might mean you couldn't get medicine for your sick mother, your children couldn't go to school and you might get kicked out of your apartment. We don't have to face those choices. Miłosz is very good at explaining them.
on fivebooks.com · 5 Mar 2012
Milosz tried to explain – as the title suggests – how thinking people could accept communism from inside the communist system.
on fivebooks.com · 25 Jan 2012