Hermann Broch -- Power and survival -- Karl Kraus: the school of resistance -- Dialogue with the cruel partner -- Realism and new reality -- Kafka's other trial: the letters to Felice -- Word attacks -- Hitler, according to Speer -- The arch of triumph -- Confucius in his conversations -- Tolstoy: the final ancestor -- Dr. Hachiya's diary of Hiroshima -- Georg Büchner -- The first book: Auto-da-Fé -- The new Karl Kraus -- The writer's profession.