Czeslaw Milosz has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 8 ratings. The most-rated is The Captive Mind.
The Captive Mind
Summary
The best-known prose work by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right. 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 of totalitarian rule to people of all political beliefs and its frightening effects on the minds of those who embrace it.
©2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc. (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
The Witness of Poetry
Summary
Czeslaw Miosz, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature, reflects upon poetry's testimony to the events of our tumultuous time. From the special perspectives of "my corner of Europe", a classical and Catholic education, a serious encounter with Marxism, and a life marked by journeys and exiles, Milosz has developed a sensibility at once warm and detached, flooded with specific memory yet never hermetic or provincial. Milosz addresses many of the major problems of contemporary poetry, beginning with the pessimism and negativism prompted by reductionist interpretations of man's animal origins. He examines the tendency of poets since Mallarmé to isolate themselves from society, and stresses the need for the poet to make himself part of the great human family. One chapter is devoted to the tension between classicism and realism; Milosz believes poetry should be "a passionate pursuit of the real". In "Ruins and Poetry" he looks at poems constructed from the wreckage of a civilization, specifically that of Poland after the horrors of World War II. Finally, he expresses optimism for the world, based on a hoped-for better understanding of the lessons of modern science, on the emerging recognition of humanity's oneness, and on mankind's growing awareness of its own history.
©1983 Czeslaw Milosz (P)2012 Redwood Audiobooks
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Dolina Issy [Issa Valley]
Summary
Powiesc autorstwa laureata Literackiej Nagrody Nobla, w której swiat przedstawiony jest oczami osmioletniego Tomasza. Portret litewskiej wsi z poczatków XX wieku. Please note: This audiobook is in Polish.
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