ABSTRACT
The connection between Central Europe and unofficial publishing movements is mutual. There is also the most elusive sphere, something the author would call the "Central European work in progress" to define all those activities, exceeding textual, or discursive dimensions, like direct contacts between the Polish and Czech intellectuals. The policies of publishers differed from each other. Even though their declarations seem to be similar, there were, at least, several visions of Central Europe behind them. The idea of Central Europe identified with the area of difficult multicultural heritage; the region of national, ethnical and religious diversity, being often a source of conflict, but giving hope for compromise – it seems to be emblematic for a contemporary imagination. It is also important to notice that the terms of "Polish" or "Czech" debates on Central Europe should be seen more as a neutral topographic category, which does not necessarily mean that those debates reflected the universal consciousness of respective societies.
