256 novels in 14 languages, written by 197 authors from Central Europe. This is the balance of our Dictionary of a team with more than 70 members. And this is the theme of our meeting: why did The Dictionary of the Central European Novel of the 20th century, a unique intellectual product, originate in Timișoara? Important Romanian, Polish, German, Hungarian, Czech, Serbian and Slovak writers, literary critics and translators will answer this question in a passionate debate.