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Liviu Rebreanu

Răscoala

The Uprising

Presented by:Alina Bako

Class

Uprising

Parties

Monique Wittig

Les Guérillères

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Feminism

Female Body

Language

collective

Juan Goytisolo

Señas de identidad

Marks of Identity

Presented by:Magda Potok

Authoritarianism

Centres and Peripheries

Spanish Civil War

Francoism

Max Winter

Matters II

Presented by:Anna Zsellér

Precariousness

Precariat

Working poor

Globalization

Belén Gopegui

La conquista del aire

Conquering the Air

Presented by:Marta Gburzyńska

Class

Capitalism

Democracy

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

D’un château l’autre

Castle to Castle

Presented by:Ivan Silobrčić

Antisemitism

Second World War

Fascism

Joseph Conrad

Under Western Eyes

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Revolution

Terrorism

Autocracy

Despotism

Reformism

Espionage

Cynicism

Political Espionage

Russian Revolution of 1905 (First Russian Revolution)

Orhan Pamuk

Kar

Snow

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Female Body

East vs. West

Islam

Language

Ignazio Silone

Fontamara

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Political Corruption

Italy

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Art Spiegelman

Maus: A Survivor’s Tale

Presented by:Florentia Antoniou

Autobiography

Nazism

Holocaust

Collective Memory

Karin Struck

Klassenliebe

Class Love

Presented by:Christoph Schaub

Gender

Class

Students’ movement

Public / private

Second-Wave Feminism

Robert Menasse

Die Hauptstadt

The Capital

Presented by:Alexandra Irimia

Refugees

Political Corruption

European Transnational Integration

Nationalism

Holocaust

Materials

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Audio

Podcast: Anti-fascist Literature

By: Ivana Perica

Article

What is a novel in the political novel? The perspectives of contemporary feminist theory

By: Mirela Dakić

Working Paper Collection

The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era (Caponeu Working Papers)

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Working Paper

“A Political Novel between the Periphery and the Center: Norman Manea’s 'Plicul negru' (1986) / 'The Black Envelope' (1995)” & “Response”

By: Brînduşa Nicolaescu, Natalya Bekhta

Storytelling

The Political Novel: A Palimpsest

By: Ivana Perica

Working Paper

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

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Topics

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Cossacks

Intersectional Politics

Authoritarianism

Capitalism

European Transnational Integration

Blitzkrieg