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Cesare Pavese

La Luna e i Falò

The Moon and the Bonfires

Presented by:Florentia Antoniou

Exile

Identity

Class

Second World War

Ćamil Sijarić

Bihorci

Bihorians

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Colonialism

Max Winter

Matters II

Presented by:Anna Zsellér

Precariousness

Precariat

Working poor

Globalization

Radosław Rak

Baśń o wężowym sercu albo wtóre słowo o Jakóbie Szeli

The Tale of the Snake's Heart

Presented by:Natalia Grudzień

Class

Feudalism

Hans Keilson

Der Tod des Widersachers

The Death of the Adversary

Presented by:Heinrich Detering

Exile

Second World War

Nazism

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Marek Hłasko

Piękni dwudziestoletni

Beautiful twentysomethings

Presented by:Natalia Grudzień

Authoritarianism

Communism

Ali Smith

Summer

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Migrations

United Kingdom

Refugees

Art

Internment

COVID Pandemic

Antisemitism

Political Discourse

Second World War

Karin Struck

Klassenliebe

Class Love

Presented by:Christoph Schaub

Gender

Class

Students’ movement

Public / private

Second-Wave Feminism

Italo Calvino

Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno

The Path to the Spiders' Nests

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Second World War

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Elizabeth Bowen

The Last September

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Wars

Irish Independence

Colonialism

Irish War of Independence

Shida Bazyar

Die Lücken

Omissions

Presented by:Miriam Schwarz

Zofia Nałkowska

Romans Teresy Hennert

The Romance of Teresa Hennert

Presented by:Dawid Borucki

Feminism

Military

Marxism

Interwar period

Romance

Materials

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Audio

Podcast: Anti-fascist Literature

By: Ivana Perica

Arcana Imperii and Globalatinization: A Probe Into Contemporary Cultural Style

By: Nenad Ivić

Video

Political Novel through Migrant Info Point's Eyes – Interview with Alicja Skrzypczak and Marta Kowalczyk

By: Marta Kowalczyk, Alicja Skrzypczak

Working Paper Collection

European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel (Caponeu Working Papers)

By: Kyung-Ho Cha, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub

Mike Phillips’ "A Shadow of Myself": Reading a post-Cold War Thriller through an Afropean Lens

By: Fanny Wehner

Video

Workshop: Thinking the Political (part 4)

By: Prathama Banerjee, German Primera

Topics

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Politics of literature

Everyday Life

Anti-fascist resistance

Counterculture

Hungarian Commune of 1919

The Erased (Izbrisani)