%0 Journal Article %T Miłosz’s Non-existent Book about America in the 1940s %A Pietrych, Piotr %J Przekładaniec %V Numery anglojęzyczne %R 10.4467/16891864ePC.13.014.1203 %N Issue 25/2011– Between Miłosz and Milosz %P 27-44 %K Miłosz in America, European Anti-Americanism in the 1940s, post-war literary life in Poland %@ 1425-6851 %D 2013 %U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/przekladaniec/artykul/miloszs-non-existent-book-about-america-in-the-1940s %X This paper sketches Miłosz’s (non)-existing book on America, consisting of his numerous articles and columns written during his fi rst stay in the United States from 1946 to 1950. They were published in the Polish literary press, often under pen names (such as “Jan M. Nowak” or “Żagarysta”). The book is a signifi cant record of the period: the political transformations at the beginning of the Cold War and the Anti- Americanism that was gaining popularity among European intellectuals in the late 1940s.