Contents:
pt. 1. Six texts by Václav Havel --
Letter to Dr Gustáv Husák --
The power of the powerless --
Six asides about culture --
Politics and conscience --
Thriller --
An anatomy of reticence --

pt. 2. Sixteen texts for Václav Havel --
Catastrophe / Samuel Beckett --
Courtesy towards God / Heinrich Böll --
Prague : a poem, not disappearing / Timothy Garton Ash --
Ex-prophets and storysellers / Jiří Gruša --
From Variations and reflections on topics in Václav Havel's prison letters / Ladislav Hejdánek --
Citizen versus state / Harry Järv --
The chaste centaur / Pavel Kohout --
Conversations 36 / Iva Kotralá --
Candide had to be destroyed / Milan Kundera --
I think about you a great deal / Arthur Miller --
When I was still living in Prague / Zdena Salivarová --
The sorrowful satisfaction of the powerless / Milan Šimečka --
I saw Václav Havel for the last time / Josef Škvorecký --
Introduction to The memorandum / Tom Stoppard --
Letter to a prisoner / Zdeněk Urbǎnek --
On the house / Lukvík Vaculík.