@article{1409115,
      note = {Translation of: Zdobycie władzy.},
      author = {Miłosz, Czesław. and Wieniewska, Celina,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1409115},
      title = {The seizure of power /},
      publisher = {Farrar, Straus, Giroux,},
      abstract = {Readers in the free world may be brought up short amid the  literary pleasures of this novel by a Nobel Prize-winning  poet. Are they sufficiently honoring the peace and freedom  denied to the characters seen here in World War II Poland?  Or are they, like the Americans observed by Milosz in  another book, using their distance from the upheavals of  history for no more than the equivalent of watching TV in a  bar? Whatever the answer, a Western reader has to feel a  humbling admiration for the depicted resisters of Nazi and  then Soviet tyranny, precursors of the Solidarity heroes  whose second anniversary was celebrated last month.  (August) And what of those who gave up resisting then - or  now? Milosz fascinatingly explores the characters able to  rationalize compliance with a repressive regime. Here, for  example, is a writer forced into a pact with the communist  devil, accepting a printing press from the authorities,  trying to place conditions on the selling of his soul,  bleakly imagining the dark years ahead. It is a brief,  telling fictional -vignette to accompany the analysis of  artists snared by Stalinism for which Milosz's ''The  Captive Mind'' is known.},
      recid = {1409115},
      pages = {xiv, 245 pages ;},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {1982},
}