Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Abbreviations XI
4. Foreword: From the Adventures of a Twentieth-Century Gulliver XII
5. Acknowledgements XIV
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter 1: Activités de Surface 10
8. Chapter 2: Miłosz as a Public Speaker and Popularizer of Polish Culture in the USA 50
9. Chapter 3: Around the Series of Articles Życie w USA [Life in the USA] 91
10. Chapter 4: From Mediation to Meditation: Miłosz’s Articles of the Years 1946–1950 148
11. Chapter 5: Miłosz in the American Reading Room 173
12. Chapter 6: Miłosz and Multi-Racial Society in the United States 226
13. Chapter 7: From “No” to “Yes.” Around Daylight 253
14. Chapter 8: Around “Notatnik amerykański” [The American Notebook] 267
15. Chapter 9: Reassessments of the American Postwar Period 282
16. Glossary 300
17. Bibliography 305
18. Index of Persons 317
19. Index of Works by Czesław Miłosz 325