by
CZESLAW MILOSZ
"How can one live and think in the countries of Stalin–
ism?" Milosz answers this question in his first-hand re–
port on the position of the intellectual, the artist, and the
writer behind the Iron Curtain. His is an urgent message
to the West on the Communist mentality and its tragic
effect on the moral and psychological life of men and
women living in an omnipotent state. He shows how the
mind of the Man of the East, in his spiritual slavery, has
to suffer the consequences of the official philosophy of
dialectical materialism. One of the best-known modem
Polish poets, Milosz has served in the diplomatic service
of the Polish government-but has since broken with the
regime, and now lives in Paris. Sections of this book have
appeared in
The Partisan Review.
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ON THE YOU TAlK
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JAMES BALDWIN
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Here is the world of a boy thrusting into manhood. It is
made up of bits of childhood and magic, and those memo–
ries of parents and kinfolk that have gone into making
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the boy himself and the world that presses in on him.
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The Deep South, Harlem, and their people are the raw
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material of this individual universe but the essential story
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is that of John Grimes, wrestling with the crises of
growth: his father's terrifying power, his agonized dis-
covery of sin, and his experience of ecstatic faith.
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"Go Tell It on tbe Mountain
was a completely satis-
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fying experience for me. It is vigorous. It is beautiful.
It is true."-J.
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