Chapter 8: A Chat with my Censor and Chapter 9: The Strange Ability of Apartments to Divide and Multiply Summary and Analysis

Slavenka is a journalist who has to regularly meet with her Censor, Comrade "Inspector M. Officially" from State Security Police. She has become important enough to be assigned a Censor and needs to be controlled. Slavenka has developed many connections with people outside the country, knows philosophers who criticize the state and is a feminist. Her chat with him is unnecessary save to make her question which ideas she will express and which she will not.

Andrea, a thirty-year old university professor lives with her father and his second wife. She is often depressed. She has no hope of living anywhere but in the small flat she currently occupies...