Introductory Note
Introductory Note

Summary/Abstract: The present miscellanea-issue of Interlitteraria took shape at the time when the world had to face the highly contradictory and dirty war in Iraq and, as a coincidence, the outburst of the SARS virus in the Far East. Because of the latter, the 17th world Congress of the ICLA, planned to be held in August 2003 in Hong Kong, had to be postponed by a year. These have been hard times for the ICLA President and officers, as well as the Congress organizers. Once again it has been eloquently proved that humanities do not possess any privileged margin of purely spiritual and intellectual legacy, far away from “the maddening crowd”, but on the contrary, are directly and humanly vulnerable, whatever the clever talk about “posthuman” culture, and humanism as something old-fashioned or archaic.[...]

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