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Robert Menasse

The Capital (Die Hauptstadt)

Presented by: Alexandra Irimia

Political corruption

European transnational integration

Refugees

The Holocaust

Nationalism

Pajtim Statovci

My Cat Yugoslavia (Kissani Jugoslavia)

Presented by: Eric Bergman

Exile

Identity

Yugoslav wars

Michael Scharang

Charly Traktor

Presented by: Ivana Perica

Class

Public / private

Workerism

Autonomism

Province / periphery

Political parties (SPÖ, ÖVP, KPÖ)

East vs. West

Upward mobility

Samuel Beckett

Molloy (Molloy )

Presented by: Paul Stewart

Violence

Marginalisation

Subjectification

Identity

Vladimir Nabokov

The Gift (Дар (Dar) )

Presented by: Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis

Exile

Bolsheviks

Cossacks

Revolution

Milan Kundera

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Kniha smíchu a zapomnění)

Presented by: Anna Gawarecka

Marxism–Leninism

Public / private

Prague Spring 1968

Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Everyday life

Fakir Baykurt

Blast Furnaces (Yüksek Fırınlar)

Presented by: Duncan Lien

Gender

Class

Students’ movement

Second-wave feminism

Vladan Desnica

The Winter Summer Vacation (Zimsko ljetovanje)

Presented by: Marina Protrka Štimec

Wars

Second world war

Racism

Balkanism

Morlacism

Class hegemony

Reading materials

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Video

What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre - day 2

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Thinking the Political Workshop - part 3

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

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What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre - day 1

Article

CAPONEU - behind the scenes

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Political Novel in Historiographical and Sociological Perspective: Structures and Analogies - part 1

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Autonomism

Cossacks

Espionage

Political elections

Marxism–Leninism

Velvet Revolution