Obsah

Editorial Remarks

Jan Vladislav Introduction

I. THEY SAID ABOUT CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Louis Aragon - The Biafra of Spirit

Heinrich Boll - The Cultural Cemetery

Karel Kosik - Letter to J-P. Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre - Letter to Karel Kosik

Jaroslav Seifert et al. - Letter to Heinrich Boll

Heinrich Boll - Letter to Jaroslav Seifert

Harry Järv - "Normalization" in the Library System

Arthur Miller - The Sin of Power

Jiri Kolar - Kafk- a's Prague

Tom Stoppard Open Letter to President Husak

Philip Roth - The Romance of Oppression

Ivan Klima - Letter to Philip Roth

H. QUESTIONNAIRE

Editorial Note

Introductory Text and Questions

Vaclav Benda

Egon Bondy

Jiri Grusa

Vaclav Havel

Ladislav Hejdanek

Miloslava Holubova

Eva Kanturkova

Bozena Komarkova

Iva Kotrla

Marie Rut Krizkova

Miroslav Kusy

Frantisek Pavlicek

Lenka Prochazkova

Milan Simecka

Dominik Tatarka

Ludvik Vaculik

Josef Zverina

W.X

Y.Z.

Ill. REFLECTIONS 123

Jaroslav Seifert - Being a Poet Means Taking a Stand

Milan Kundera - I am Weighing my Words Carefully

Vaclav Havel - Six Asides about Culture

Josef Skvorecky - The Un Ii n ished End oft he Jazz Section of the Czech Musicians' Union

Jan Vladislav - Poets and Power

Iva Kotrla - Around the Abyss

Vlasta Chramostova - A Censored Life

Pavel Kohout - Life in a Graveyard

IV. CHRONICLE OF EVERYDAY REPRESSION

V. DOCUMENTS

Pavel Kohout - Open Letter to the Minister of Culture

Ludvik Vaculik - Impermissible Thoughts: A Letter to Kurt Waldheim

Vilem Precan - A Few Words about Historians

Milan Simecka - Letter to the General Prosecutor's Office

Miroslav Kusy - Letter to the General Prosecutor's Office

Lists of Forbidden Writers

VI. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

PERSONAL INDEX