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Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future.
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Milosz Czeslaw (b. 1911), Polish-American author, translator, and critic who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. Czeslaw Milosz worked with the Polish Resistance movement in Warsaw during World War II and defected to France in 1951. His work brings to bear the political awareness of an exile -- most notably in A Treatise on Poetry, a forty-page exploration of the world wars that rocked the first half of the twentieth century.
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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.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0140081291
- ISBN 13 9780140081299
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Book softcover King Penguin reprint with author's note pp251. Condition Near Fine appears unread, age toned edges and page margins. Seller Inventory # L9.476.5
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