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Il’ia Il’f, Evgenii Petrov

Двенадцать стульев/ Dvenadtsat' stul'yev & Золотой телёнок/ Zolotoy telyonok

The Twelve Chairs & The Golden Calf

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Derviš Sušić

Hodža Strah

Imam of Fear

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Ottoman Empire

Nationalism

Colonialism

Anarchism

Maria Modrakowska

Anetka

Presented by:Anna Artwich

Feminism

Queer

Fakir Baykurt

Yüksek Fırınlar

Blast Furnaces

Presented by:Duncan Lien

Gender

Class

Students’ movement

Second-Wave Feminism

Georgi Gospodinov

Времеубежище (Vremeubezhishte)

Time Shelter

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Nostalgia

Socialism

Liberalism

Collective Memory

Borislav Pekić

Besnilo: žanr roman

Rabies: genre novel

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Elvira Navarro

La trabajadora

A Working Woman

Presented by:Magda Potok

GFC (Global Financial Crisis) of 2008

Neoliberalism

Precariat

Karel Čapek

Válka s mloky

The War with the Newts

Presented by:Anna Gawarecka

Dystopic Europes

Totalitarianism

Colonialism

Nazism

Stalinism

Alberts Bels

Būris

The Cage

Presented by:Daria Banasiewicz

Totalitarianism

Existentialism

Surveillance

Dissidence

Vjenceslav Novak

Majstor Adam

Master Adam

Presented by:Karlo Držaić

Class

Nationalism

Socialism

Moral Panic

August Cesarec

Careva kraljevina

Emperor’s Kingdom

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Prison Fiction

Ignazio Silone

Brot und Wein

Bread and Wine

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Wars

Political Dictatorship

Fascism

Socialism

Organised action

Patriarchy

Catholicism

Protestantism

Materials

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Conference: What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre - day 3

By: Andrea Milanko, Ana Tomljenović, Paul Stewart, Shambhavi Prakash, Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis, Błażej Warkocki, Nenad Ivić

Article

Błażej Warkocki: From Poland with love: Politics of queerness in the time of neoliberal post-socialism (the case of Michał Witkowski)

By: Błażej Warkocki

Article

Nenad Ivić: Is Pierre Michon’s "The Eleven" a political novel?

By: Nenad Ivić

Video

Women's migration and travel writing - Interview with Charlotte Woodford

By: Tomasz Mizerkiewicz, Charlotte Woodford

Video

Workshop: The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era

By: Aurore Peyroles, Ivana Perica, Johanna-Charlotte Horst, Christoph Schaub

Video

Thinking the Political Workshop - part 2

By: Clare Woodford, Allan Hansen

Topics

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Proletariat

Everyday Life

subsistence

Collective Memory

Holocaust

Estrangement