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Arthur Koestler

Darkness at Noon

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Bolsheviks

Stalinism

Fascism

Anti-communism

Show trials

Organised action

Individualism

Antje Rávik Strubel

Blaue Frau

Blue Woman

Presented by:Alrik Daldrup

Gender

Centres and Peripheries

East vs. West

Carmen Laforet

Nada

Presented by:Florentia Antoniou

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Existentialism

Civil War

Bildungsroman

F. E. Sillanpää

Hurskas Kurjuus: Päättynyt Suomalainen Elämäkerta

Meek Heritage

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Javier Cercas

Soldados de Salamina

Soldiers of Salamis

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Fascism

20th century

Spanish Civil War

Francoism

Kim de l’Horizon

Blutbuch

Blood Book

Presented by:Sarah Colvin

Identity

Gender

Feminism

Queer

Non-binary

Family

Christa Wolf

Kassandra

Cassandra

Presented by:Charlotte Mencke

German Democratic Republic (GDR/DDR)

Cold War

ancient Greek mythology

Cristina Morales

Lectura fácil

Easy Reading

Presented by:Marta Gburzyńska

Female Body

Capitalism

Democracy

Everyday Life

Anarchism

Zofia Nałkowska

Romans Teresy Hennert

The Romance of Teresa Hennert

Presented by:Dawid Borucki

Feminism

Military

Marxism

Interwar period

Romance

Ali Smith

Summer

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Migrations

United Kingdom

Refugees

Art

Internment

COVID Pandemic

Antisemitism

Political Discourse

Second World War

Ivo Brešan

Ispovijedi nekarakternog čovjeka

Confessions of an Amoral Man

Presented by:Andrea Milanko

Janko Polić Kamov

Isušena kaljuža

The Dried-out Mire

Presented by:Andrea Milanko

Materials

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Video

Workshop: Thinking the Political (part 4)

By: Prathama Banerjee, German Primera

Conference Collection

Literary Acts of Agency: Negotiating the Rule of Law

By: Ivana Perica, Catriona Corke, Philipp Wegmann

Working Paper

“Semi-peripheral Nodes and the Circulation of Political Ideas. The Case of a Romanian Novel” & “Uneven and Combined Development in the Centre of Modernism: Beckett, Joyce, London and Dublin. Response"

By: Alina Bako, Paul Stewart

Video

How to Read Political Novels? Online lecture

By: Ivana Perica

Video

Exile as an opportunity - Interview with Zrinka Božić

By: Tomasz Mizerkiewicz, Zrinka Božić

Article

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

By: Mirela Dakić

Topics

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Neoliberalism

Uprising

Agency

Dystopic Europes

Human Rights

Communism