A poetical political history, Adam Czerniawski; Gombrowicz's Polish complex, Ursula Phillips; state of arrest - the short stories of Bruno Schulz, George Hyde; the prison of self - moral dilemmas in Andrzejewski's fiction, Stanislaw Eile; the document, polarities of its employment by Rialoszewski and Mackiewicz, Jerzy Jarzebski; Zbigniew Herbert and the notion of virtue, Stanislaw Baranczak; the telescopic world of Jeu de Mirroirs - rereading the works of Slawomir Mrozek, Helene Wlodarczyk; Mysliwski's The Palace - a translator's introduction, Ursula Phillips; Tadeusz Konwicki - a personal view, George Hyde; at the end of the century, Aleksander Fiut; between absurdity and apocalypse - contemporary Poland in drama and fiction 1977-1987, Stanislaw Eile; internal exile in a free society? New poetry in Poland in the 1980s and early 1990s, Donald P.A. Pirie.