Milan Suchomel
The critic's first years: Šalda, 1891-93.  /339/

Peter Bugge
Contagion of the world: Sickness and epidemics in the work of Karel Čapek from the late 1930s.  /353/

Přemysl Blažíček
Poets of the pre-1939 avantgarde after February 1948. A study for Dějiny české literatury od roku 1945.  /371/

Vladimír Papoušek
Existentialism in the journalism and essays of the post-1948 Czechoslovak émigrés.  /385/


OVERVIEWS

Květa Sgallová
A thesaurus of Czech meter.  /398/

Jana Hoffmannová
Rhethoric and `rhethoric'.  /402/

Vladimír Fořt
Remarks on Weiner's Vůz.  /407/


DOCUMENTS

Michal Bauer
Jiří Taufer's paper at the Czechoslovak Writers'Conference, 22 January 1950.  /411/


REVIEWS AND GLOSSES

Květoslav Chvatík
A good introduction to hermeneutics or: Paying back a great debt.  /431/

Aleš Haman
An analysis of Hrabal's imagery.  /434/

Ludvík Patera
A contribution to the scholarly analysis of `context'.  /435/

Josef Polák
The year of Božena Němcová's birth.  /439/

Pavel Janoušek
The man who was ... Vladimír Macura.  /44/5