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)