Published: 2020-12-17

The Captive Mind – the Change in the Modes of Reception

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Abstract

This article presents the changes through history in the reception of The Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz. The book was published in 1953, first of all for the foreign readers. There were editions in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish. However, it mainly evoked emotions of Poles at home and on emigration. After the 1989, with the first legal mass edition, we observed a decrease of interest in Poland for the Miłosz’s text. It has become a classical work, it kept up didactic function. On the other hand, the world response argues, through universal interpretations and new translations in 21th century (a Belorussian, Russian, Turkish, Catalan, Serbian), that the Miłosz’s propositions are current and attractive outside Poland, in other geopolitical conditions.

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Pawelec, D. (2020). The Captive Mind – the Change in the Modes of Reception. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 7(1), 183–190. Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PPol/article/view/10757

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2011)
Published: 2020-12-22


ISSN: 1898-1593
eISSN: 2353-9844
Ikona DOI 10.31261/PS_P

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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