Contemporary philosophers, social scientists and artists have already indicated that we cannot consider reality as a determined singular entity with mono-causal logic and universal validity. On the contrary, a multiform phenomenon of reality, contextually sensitive and highly specific at the same time, is always represented according to the observer – his/her perspective and his/her perceptive categories. The project ECHOR came out of these multicultural reflections and objections. It deals with contemporary re-evaluation of cultural patterns and habits in post-socialist and post-nationalist, multicultural world. Its aim is to juxtapose different social identities (minorities, migrants, refugees, women, homosexuals, diasporas, subcultural groups) as captured in literary narratives, and rethink the ties between complex realities of various social environments and their multiple and often also divergent ways of representation. The title of the project thus stresses this connection between social (reality) and personal representation (echo).Selected works (7 books from Polish, Czech, German, and English language) are chosen with regard to the author's capability and sensibility to address these questions in outstanding literary language and explain a paradigm rupture between old and new world (mentality) in a delicate manner. All authors deal with mechanisms of memory/remembrance, and some also with strategies of social oblivion/personal amnesia. All authors are developing their personal style in relation to the past constructions of their literary figures or to their future projections. None of the selected authors is limited by anachronistic discursive strategies and normative world view, just the opposite, all are able to manifest and articulate today’s risky identity shifts, nomadic subjects and contradictory cultural diversity. With selected books we offer literary and social tools to think about realities and their representations more closely.