by Czesław Miłosz
The majority of this book was intellectually thrilling, with a balance and subtlety which is rare, for example, on the internet today. On the other hand, I've read a few autobiographical works by Milosz, and it seems as if the subtlety is disguising pro-communist leanings and communist intellectual ...
I'm not an avid reader of essays - well, actually I have a tendency to keep them out from my bookshelves -, but 'The Captive Mind' is a different matter. As some earlier Goodreads reviewer stated: 'This book has some power'.Well, a Hell of a lot of power, indeed!'The Captive Mind' is an extraordinar...