Czeslaw Milosz CONQUERING THE AUTHORITY IL first edition 1955

MILOSZ Czeslaw: ZDOBYCIE WŁADZY Instytut Literacki, first edition, Paris 1955, pp. 151[1] 21x13.5cm

"The conquest of power - Czeslaw Milosz's first novel, written in the summer of 1952, published in 1953 in French (La prise du pouvoir) and in the original Polish in 1955 by the Literary Institute in Paris, as the 9th volume of the Library of "Culture". The first official national edition was published in 1990

The novel is set in 1944-1948 and depicts the process of installing communist power in Poland, involving the incapacitation of society through violence and fear. The work corresponds with the treatise The Captive Mind by showing the complex motivations of the intelligentsia characters leading to their forced consent to the top-down imposed order."