Contents studies Literary Stories: Cultural Memory ........................................................................................................7 Alexander Kratochvil The Bulwark against Trauma: Poetry as a Means of Survival in Totalitarian Prisons ................... 21 Petra Čáslavová The Terezín Diaries of Egon Redlich from the Perspective of Writing Theory .............................. 47 Zbyněk Fišer Reception of the National Trauma “Knut Hamsun” in Norway. Notes on Gabriel Langfeldt’s and Leo Eitinger’s Psychiatric Discourse ........................................................................................... 57 Miluše Juříčková Trauma Freud: Sigmund Freud as a Fictional Character in D. M. Thomas’s The White Hotel ....... 69 Miroslav Kotásek The Role of Literature in Reconciling Trauma on Personal and Social Level .................................. 83 Kristýna Bušková interview The Spoils of an Existential Journey An interview with the Writer Jiří Kratochvil .................................................................................... 95 Zbyněk Fišer