Table of Contents -- Preface - the European Cultural Foundation -- Foreword - Robert Maclennan -- A Guide to Alter Ego - Guido Snel -- 1. Beauty and the East -- A Tale from the Wild East - Goran Stefanovski -- Luxurious Madness - Jachym Topol -- Ego with Alter Ego - Emil Tode -- Me, the Mirror and I - Yuri Andrukhovych -- An Interview with Myself - David Albahari -- 2. Heimat and its (Dis)contents -- Dreaming of Friends, Living with Foes - Alesˇ Debeljak -- The Right to Feel at Home - an interview with Jaak Aaviksoo -- Heimat - Marlene Streeruwitz -- The Enlargement Takes Place in the Centre of Europe - an interview with Erhard Busek -- The Corpse under the Table - an interview with István Eörsi -- 3. Intimate Geographies -- A Past Retrieved - an interview with Eva Hoffman -- In the Reflected Light of the Alter Ego or: The Splendour and Misery of My Identity - Nelly Bekus Goncharova -- Eurotic I - Saviana Stanescu -- We Are the Past of Europe - an interview with Andrei Plesu -- Alter (the) Ego - Ademir Arapovic -- 4. The Uses of Diversity -- Nevin Aladag's Alter Egos - Nevin Aladag interviews herself -- Mother Tongue, Stepmother Tongue - an interview with Abdelkader Benali -- How European - Péter Zilahy -- The Point of the Commonality of Cultures - an interview with Sami Zubaida -- The Saga of the Feel-good Strudel (A Family Apocrypha) - Damir Sˇodan -- Contributors.