Czeslaw Milosz - A Mente Aprisionada

Written by Milosz during his exile in Paris and published in 1953, "The Imprisoned Mind" is a fundamental work and a classic in the study of totalitarianism.

Through short biographical narratives of Polish intellectuals and their relationship with the communist regime in power, Milosz describes the complete social domination it exerted at the time, subjugating the spirit and ideas through the "organic transmission" of a single thought. Milosz illuminates and summarizes this worldview and the obedience to its seductive and persuasive method in a set of innovative, then controversial, texts that anticipated dissent and denunciations of Stalinism.

The unique, incisive, and sardonic narrative style, erudite and eloquent, which combines philosophical and political reflection with almost fictional biographical description, makes The Imprisoned Mind a unique and unavoidable work of essayistic literature, and one of the most influential and inspiring books ever written on the subject.