Wall in My Head: Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain Book

Introduction Keith Gessen ix

From The Art of the Novel Milan Kundera 3

Paris Lost Wladimir Kaminer 8

From Omon Ra Victor Pelevin 13

Petition Mihály Kornis 16

From Moving House Pawe&lslash; Huelle 21

Nabokov in Brasov Mircea C&acaron;rt&acaron;rescu 26

From Waltz for K Dmitri Savitski 37

Report from a Besieged City Zbigniew Herbert 44

On Eugen Jebeleanu Matthew Zapruder 47

Poems from Secret Weapon tEugen Jebeleanu 49

From Imperium Ryszard Kapuściński 53

From The Tower Uwe Tellkamp 59

My Grandmother the Censor Masha Gessen 66

From The Wall Jumper Peter Schneider 74

Farewell to the Queue Vladimir Sorokin 80

Tower of Song: How the Plastic People of the Universe Helped Shape the Velvet Revolution Paul Wilson 89

In Pictures 99

The Revenge Annett Gröschner 110

The Souvenirs of Communism Dubravka Ugresic 116

The Road to Bornholm Durs Grünbein 122

Regardless of the Cost: Reflections on Péter Esterházy's Revised Edition Judith Sollosy 132

Preface to Revised Edition Péter Esterházy 136

From Mandarins Stanislav Komárek 145

Brother and Sister Christhard Lápple 153

Faraway, So Gross Dorota Mas&lslash;owska 160

From Urbancholia Dan Sociu 166

That Fear Andrzej Stasiuk 174

Speech at the Opening Session of the 13th German Bundestag Stefan Heym 178

The Life and Times of a Soviet Capitalist Irakli Iosebashvili 184

The War Within Maxim Trudolubov 199

Any Beach But This David Zábranský 209

The Noble School Muharem Bazdulj 222