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The Captive Mind
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1953
- Originally in
- Originally in Polish
- Pages
- Pages 260
Four Polish intellectuals swallow the pill called Murti-Bing in Stanisław Witkiewicz's prewar novel and learn to think the thoughts their new masters require, their inner lives reshaped to fit a doctrine they once resisted. Czesław Miłosz, a defected diplomat writing in Paris in 1953, named the central practice Ketman after the Persian art of concealing one's true faith while practicing the prescribed one.
Like many of my generation, I could have wished that my life had been a more simple affair.
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