Late Polish Noble laureate\'s book published in Chinese

A Chinese version of the book \"The Captive Mind\" by Czeslaw Milosz, a late Polish poet and prose writer and winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature, has been published by Guangxi Normal University Press.Yi Lijun, a senior translator in charge of translating the book from Polish to Chinese, described the author as \"a pursuer of difference in the name of beauty\" at a conference held on Tuesday for the book\'s release.\"Milosz possesses a deep perception of the world while putting his thoughts in plain words,\" said Yi. \"He expressed his sympathy for suffering people but showed contempt for the privileged.\"\"The Captive Mind\" is a 1953 non-fiction work that details Milosz\'s experiences as an underground writer during World War II and his position within the political and cultural elite of Poland in the immediate post-war years.Milosz once described the book as having been written \"under great inner conflict,\" according to Yi.Milosz was born in 1911 and died in 2004. After serving as a cultural diplomat at Polish embassies in the United States and France, he defected from his country in the 1950s. He began to live in the United States in 1961.