E

East Prussia, 224

Eastern Europe. See people's democracies

Eliot, T. S., 47–48, 180

Engels, Friedrich, 220

enslavement through consciousness, 191

Estonia, 225, 230, 231. See also Baltic States

"Eternal Slave," letter encoded, 232, 250

Ethical Ketman, 75–78

evil, 225

F

Fadeyev, Aleksandr Aleksandrovic, 70

Fascism, 30

Fast, Howard, 153

feast in the ancient Slavonic manner, 159, 160

Finland, 68

Flaubert, Gustave, 243, 244

formal logic, 50

G

Gamma (alias for an Eastern European writer), 135–174

ambassador of Communist Poland, 139, 140, 169

anti-Semite, 138, 144

appearance, 137, 140

bridge player, 171–172

character, 140–141, 151, 153, 154, 167–168

Communist press organizer, 161

killer of childhood friend, accidental, 142, 167

liberal, Western reputation as a, 139, 141, 171

literary researcher, 149

nationalist, 138, 144

novelist (Reality), 169–170, 172, 174

overseer of Polish literature, 172–173

parents, siblings, 137–138, 142, 152

the Party, devotee of, 141

Party official, 162–163, 165, 171

Party writer, 150–151, 161

poet, 146, 148

Polish army formed in Russia, organizer and officer of, 157

political blunderer, 173–174

Stalinist, prewar, 148–149

traveler, 170–171

Union of Patriots, founder of, 154

Warsaw's destruction, observer of, 160

wife, children abandoned, 154

wife, second, 158–159, 169

the Generalissimo. See Stalin

genetics, 49

Germany, Germans

refugees in postwar, life of, 123–124

as subject of postwar Polish literature, 125–126

view of in people's democracies, 61–62

Gibbon, Edward, 198

Gobineau, Comte Joseph-Arthur de, 57

quoted, 57–60

guilt, 210

H

Hadzhi-Sheikh-Ahmed, 58

hatred, 9–11, 61–62, 164–165, 205, 212, 239

He, Him. See Stalin

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 219

Hikmet, Nazim, 152

History

as the devil's private preserve, 168, 174

impotence against its laws as literary theme, 128

mastery of proclaimed, 219

moral indignation made superfluous, 231–232

pity made superfluous, 97

as replacement for God, 31, 220

Hitler, Adolf, 101, 128, 132, 200

I

the Imperium. See people's democracies; Russia, Russians

Incas, 223

intellectuals

adapted vs. genuine revolutionaries, 7

in post-1945 Poland, 166

vs. intelligentsia, 93–94, 246–247

in the West, 79

See also people's democracies, intellectuals in

intelligentsia

in post-1945 Poland, 104

as reactionary elements, 204

social origins, 143

vs. intellectuals, 93–94, 246–247

the West's lack of, 33–34, 93

J

Jasieñski, Bruno, 152

K

Kaliningrad (Koenigsburg), 230

Kant, Immanuel, 230

Ketman

advantages, 79–81

Aesthetic Ketman, 64–69

consciousness, 191

defined, 57–58

Ethical Ketman, 75–78

intellect sharpened, 78

Islamic, 58–60

Ketman of Revolutionary Purity, 63–64

lies, 80

Metaphysical Ketman, 72–75

National Ketman, 61–63

Professional Ketman, 69–71

psychological perspicacity sharpened, 78

satisfactions, 56–57

Ketman (continued)

Sceptical Ketman, 71–72

in the West, 79–80

Koestler, Arthur, 42

kulaks, destruction of, 231–233

L

Landor, Walter Savage, 70

Latvia, 225, 230. See also Baltic States

Laurel and Hardy, 203

Lenin, V. I., 145, 163–164, 195, 213, 219

literary ghetto, 109

literary politicians, 151

literature

national literatures in socialist realism, 22

Party's effect on, 129, 130–131

Polish postwar, 125–126, 128–129, 163, 164

political passion, 130

sentimentality in, 237

Lithuania, 225, 230. See also Baltic States

logic, formal, 50

loyalty ethic, 91–92, 98, 102

Lublin, 159

Lucretius, 246

Lukacs, György, 214

Lvov, 150, 154

M

Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 243–244

Marina, Justinian (Rumanian patriarch), 208

Maritain, Jacques, 84, 85

Marx, Karl, 69, 74, 145, 220

Marxists, making them into Stalinists, 220

Mayakovsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 63

Metaphysical Ketman, 72–75

"metaphysical residue," 73

the Method. See Stalinism

Michelangelo, 217

Milosz, Czeslaw

anti-Stalinist, 166

cultural attaché to the US, 168

émigré, 248–250

family origins, 143, 227

inner voice in, 109–110

person in a people's democracy, imagined future as, 248

poet, 168, 247, 250, 251

thinker about the Baltics, 223

university student, 135, 142–145, 146, 148, 165

witness to Warsaw ghetto, 184

Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, 89, 150, 156

Monsieur Homais, 243–244, 249

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de, 81

Murti-Bing philosophy, pills

effects, 4–5, 22–24

realization, 5–6

See also Stalinism