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Alexandre Labruffe

Chroniques d’une station-service

Presented by:Melanie Schneider

Capitalism

Technology

Climate Crisis

21st century

Annie Ernaux

Les Années 

The Years

Presented by:Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Sexual Revolution

Petty-bourgeoisie

France

Benjamin Zephaniah

Refugee Boy

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Migrations

Racism

Pan-Africanism

Rastafari

Political Asylum

Black Identity

Danilo Kiš

Grobnica za Borisa Davidoviča

A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Marxism–Leninism

Bolsheviks

Revolution

History

Second World War

Stalinism

Civil War

Sarah Waterfeld

Sex mit Gysi

Sex with Gysi

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Careerism

Political Disenchantment

Left-Wing Parliamentarism

Female Politicians

Political Elections

Norman Manea

Plicul negru

The Black Envelope

Presented by: Brînduşa Nicolaescu

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Antisemitism

Fear

Dinçer Güçyeter

Unser Deutschlandmärchen

Our Fairy Tale of Germany

Presented by:Kyung-Ho Cha

Migrations

Guest Worker

Hans Keilson

Der Tod des Widersachers

The Death of the Adversary

Presented by:Heinrich Detering

Exile

Second World War

Nazism

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Max Winter

Matters II

Presented by:Anna Zsellér

Precariousness

Precariat

working poor

Globalization

Alain van Crugten

La dictature des ignares

The Dictatorship of the Ignoramuses

Presented by:Dorota Walczak-Delanois

Authoritarianism

Students’ movement

History

East vs. West

Michael Scharang

Charly Traktor

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Class

Public / private

Workerism

Autonomism

East vs. West

Parties

Province / Periphery

Stanisław Brzozowski

Płomienie. Z papierów po Michale Kaniowskim

Flames. From the Papers of Michal Kaniowski

Presented by:Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Class

Terrorism

Materials

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Audio

Podcast: Der politische Roman by Ivana Perica

By: Ivana Perica

Video

Workshop: Thinking the Political (part 1)

By: Vedrana Veličković, Oliver Marchart

Working Paper

Kyung-Ho Cha, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub: “European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel.”

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

Article

Ivana Perica and Aurore Peyroles: Who’s afraid of the political novel? An introduction

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Liam Connell: Response to Verónica Paula Gómez

By: Liam Connell

Video

Workshop: Political Novel in Europe and Migration/Exile

By: Caponeu Team

Topics

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Twentieth century

Slavery

Show trials

Critical phallacy

Civil War

An Gorta Mór