Introduction by Jan Vladislav: Asides to readers of Havel's essays (translated by A. G. Brain)

Part One: Six texts by Vaclav Havel

1 Letter to Dr. Gustav Husak

2 The power of the powerless (translated by P. Wilson)

3 Six asides about culture (translated by E. Kohak)

4 Politics and conscience

(translated by E. Kohak and R. Scruton)

5 Thriller (translated by P. Wilson)

6 An anatomy of reticence (translated by E. Kohak)

Part Two: Sixteen texts for Vaclav Havel

1 Samuel Beckett: Catastrophe

2 Heinrich Boll: Courtesy towards God (translated by J. R. Littelboy)

3 Timothy Garton Ash: Prague - a poem, not disappearing

4 Jiri Grusa: Ex-prophets and storysellers (translated by D. Armour)

5 Ladislav Hejdanek: from Variations and reflections on topics in Vaclav Havel's prison letters (translated by D. Viney)

6 Harry Jarv: Citizen versus state

7 Pavel Kohout: The chaste centaur (translated by M. Pomichalek and A. Mozga)

8 Iva Kotrla: Conversations 36 (translated by D. Viney)

9 Milan Kundera: Candide had to be destroyed (translated by K.Seigneurie)

10 Arthur Miller: I think about you a great deal

11 Zdena Salivarova: When I was still living in Prague

12 Milan Simecka: The sorrowful satisfaction of the powerless (translated by A. G. Brain)

13 Josef Skvorecky: I saw Vaclav Havel for the last time

14 Tom Stoppard: Introduction (to The Memorandum)

15 Zdenek Urbanek: Letter to a prisoner (translated by G. Theiner)

16 Ludvik Vaculik: On the house (translated by A. G. Brain)

A short bio-bibliography of Vaclav Havel (translated by D. Viney)