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Bora Ćosić

Tutori

The Tutors

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

History

Family

Dezső Kosztolányi

Édes Anna

Anna Édes

Presented by:Gábor Tamás Molnár

Class

Domestic Servitude

Right-Wing Restoration

Hungarian Commune of 1919

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

Vjenceslav Novak

Majstor Adam

Master Adam

Presented by:Karlo Držaić

Class

Nationalism

Socialism

Moral Panic

Alexandre Labruffe

Chroniques d’une station-service

Presented by:Melanie Schneider

Capitalism

Technology

Climate Crisis

21st century

Fedor Gladkov

Цемент (Cement)

Cement

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Gender

Marxism–Leninism

Bolsheviks

Class

Petty-bourgeoisie

Proletariat

Honest Intelligentsia

Socialism

Orhan Pamuk

Kar

Snow

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Female Body

East vs. West

Islam

Language

Danilo Kiš

Peščanik

Hourglass

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Totalitarianism

Antisemitism

Second World War

Holocaust

Kallia Papadaki

Δενδρίτες / Dendrítes

Dendrites

Presented by:Niki Sioki

Identity

Racism

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Crisis

Emigration

Liviu Rebreanu

Răscoala

The Uprising

Presented by:Alina Bako

Class

Uprising

Parties

Tibor Déry

G. A. úr X-ben

Mr. G. A. in X

Presented by:Richárd Vincze

Serhiy Zhadan

Ворошиловград (Voroshylovhrad)

Voroshilovgrad

Presented by:Sarah Colvin

Materials

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Video

Roundtable: Literature in Times of Crisis: What Can the Novel Do?

By: Ivana Perica, Patrick Eiden-Offe, Heike Geißler, Alhierd Bacharevič, Maryam Aras

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

Working Paper

Impotent Forms: "Crabwalk" and the Political Novel

By: Sophie Salvo

Video

Workshop: Literary Politics and Geopolitics

By: Zrinka Božić, Mark Devenney, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub, Patrick Eiden-Offe, Charlotte Woodford, Nenad Ivić, Korbinian Lindel, Lisa Katharina Schmitz, Ekaterina Vassilieva, Fanny Wehner, Anna Björk Einarsdóttir, Max Roehl, Benjamin Kohlmann, Natalya Bekhta, Louis Aubry, Marina Sivak

Video

Exile as an opportunity - Interview with Zrinka Božić

By: Tomasz Mizerkiewicz, Zrinka Božić

Response to Sophie Salvo

By: Elias Kreuzmair

Topics

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Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Electronic Literature

Autocracy

Polyphonic Novel

Catholicism

Political Corruption