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Volume 3/4 of Autodafe includes original contributions by a stellar group of leading literary voices of conscience from around the world: Jovica Acin (Serbia), Adonis (Syria), Florence Aubenas (France), Svetlana Alexievitch (Ukraine), Russell Banks (United States), Mourid Barghouti (Palestine), François Barré (France), Stanko Cerovic (Montenegro), Hélène Cixous (France), Vincenzo Consolo (Italy), Syl Cheney Coker (Sierra Leone), Mahmoud Darwish (Palestine), Ariel Dorfman (Chile), Carlos Fuentes (Mexico), Nedim Gürsel (Turkey), Gamal Ghitany (Egypt), Edward Herman (United States), Chenjerai Hove (Zimbabwe), Sonallah Ibrahim (Egypt), Abdellatif Laabi (Morocco), Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt), Alia Mamdouh (Iraq), Alvaro Mutis (Mexico), Victor Pelevin (Russia), Christian Salmon (France), Wole Soyinka (Nigeria), Hector Tizon (Argentina), Mehmed Uzun (Turkey), Enrique Vila-Matas (Spain), Antoine Volodine (France), Xiao Xiao (China), and Spôjmaï Zariâb (Afghanistan).

In conjunction with the International Parliament of Writers’ tenth anniversary, this third volume of Autodafe examines contemporary threats to creative expression; current forms of censorship and propaganda; and new means of intellectual, literary, and linguistic resistance. Autodafe 3/4 is entitled L.T.I. (2003): A Manual for Intellectual Survival, in tribute to the work of Viktor Klemperer. From 1933 to 1945 the Jewish professor kept a secret linguistic diary, Lingua Tertium Imperri, The Language of the Third Reich, detailing the characteristic literary forms and idiomatic expressions of the Nazis.

The International Parliament of Writers (IPW) was created in July 1993 in reaction to the increase of assassinations of writers in Algeria. The IPW has as its goal the defense of the freedom of creation wherever it is threatened, and the investigation of and research on new forms of censorship.