Czeslaw Milosz was the most inspirational and courageous man alive. He saved lives, stood up to Nazism and went through all odds to regain diverse literature. Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania in 1911. He and his family had to flee Lithuania during the Stalin reign and Hitler’s invasions on Russia. He then moved on to other activities such as writing and poetry. He moved to Paris to see his distant cousin. Many things changed when he moved there. He joined “The Zagary”; a poetic group that creates poetry and writes stories and books. Milosz also joined a radio station. He later got kicked out due to controversial ideas over communism. Czeslaw had a family of a loving wife, a son and a good brother. Milosz was associated with the catastrophist
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But, there are a few distinguished we must remember. In 1978, Czeslaw Milosz received the Neustadt award in Literature. A very noticeable award for this man and his work. In 1980, when Milosz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the communist government was forced to relent. A lot of events that constituted a dynamic change of Polish culture in the world spotlight. Two years prior, Karol Wojtyła had become Pope John Paul II, and soon after, the democratic Solidarity labor strikes in Poland became widespread activities that gave Poland change from communist party to western democracy. A government-authorized series of Milosz’s poems was issued and sold a 200,000 copies. But his most prestige work was “The Captive Mind”. It was about how the weak minds of the people follow the strong dictatorship of the communist party. The book didn’t gain positive views from the Polish government and the United States. Karl Jaspers, in an article for the Saturday Review, described The Captive Mind as “a significant historical document and analysis of the highest order… In astonishing gradations Milosz shows what happens to men subjected simultaneously to constant threat of annihilation and to the promptings of faith in a historical necessity which exerts apparently irresistible force and achieves enormous
But, there are a few distinguished we must remember. In 1978, Czeslaw Milosz received the Neustadt award in Literature. A very noticeable award for this man and his work. In 1980, when Milosz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the communist government was forced to relent. A lot of events that constituted a dynamic change of Polish culture in the world spotlight. Two years prior, Karol Wojtyła had become Pope John Paul II, and soon after, the democratic Solidarity labor strikes in Poland became widespread activities that gave Poland change from communist party to western democracy. A government-authorized series of Milosz’s poems was issued and sold a 200,000 copies. But his most prestige work was “The Captive Mind”. It was about how the weak minds of the people follow the strong dictatorship of the communist party. The book didn’t gain positive views from the Polish government and the United States. Karl Jaspers, in an article for the Saturday Review, described The Captive Mind as “a significant historical document and analysis of the highest order… In astonishing gradations Milosz shows what happens to men subjected simultaneously to constant threat of annihilation and to the promptings of faith in a historical necessity which exerts apparently irresistible force and achieves enormous