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Kathrin Röggla

wir schlafen nicht

we never sleep

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Neoliberalism

Capitalism

Alain van Crugten

La dictature des ignares

The Dictatorship of the Ignoramuses

Presented by:Dorota Walczak-Delanois

Authoritarianism

Students’ movement

History

East vs. West

Alberts Bels

Būris

The Cage

Presented by:Daria Banasiewicz

Totalitarianism

Existentialism

Surveillance

Dissidence

Il’ia Il’f, Evgenii Petrov

Двенадцать стульев/ Dvenadtsat' stul'yev & Золотой телёнок/ Zolotoy telyonok

The Twelve Chairs & The Golden Calf

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Amanda Michalopoulou

Η γυναίκα του Θεού (I gynaika tou Theou)

God's Wife

Presented by:Niki Sioki

Identity

Gender

Feminism

Female Body

Theis Ørntoft

Jordisk

Earthly

Presented by:Troels Thorborg Andersen

Capitalism

Geopolitics

Climate Crisis

Consumerism

Vjenceslav Novak

Majstor Adam

Master Adam

Presented by:Karlo Držaić

Class

Nationalism

Socialism

Moral Panic

Michał Witkowski

Lubiewo

Lovetown

Presented by:Błażej Warkocki

Neoliberalism

Queer

LGBT

Central and Eastern Europe

Non-binary

Tadeusz Konwicki

Mała apokalipsa

The Minor Apocalypse

Presented by:Zofia Paetz

Dissidence

Anti-communism

Censorship

Serhiy Zhadan

Ворошиловград (Voroshylovhrad)

Voroshilovgrad

Presented by:Sarah Colvin

Cesare Pavese

La Luna e i Falò

The Moon and the Bonfires

Presented by:Florentia Antoniou

Exile

Identity

Class

Second World War

Jospeh Ponthus

À la ligne: Feuillets d'usine

On the Line: Notes from a Factory

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Precariousness

Capitalism

Precariat

Work

21st century

Materials

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Video

Workshop: Thinking the Political (part 3)

By: Mark Devenney, Tanay Gandhi, Ricardo Camargo Brito

Video

Workshop: Political Novel in Historiographical and Sociological Perspective - Structures and Analogies (part 2)

By: Mirela Dakić, Goran Pavlić, Ante Andabak, Branimir Janković

Article

Fundamental operations of the political in Beckett’s Molloy

By: Paul Stewart

Article

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

By: Mirela Dakić

Conference Collection

Conference collection: What is the Political Novel? Defining the Genre

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub, Patrick Eiden-Offe, Johanna-Charlotte Horst, Kyung-Ho Cha

Reading Group Resources

Questions for Reading Groups

By: Sarah Colvin, Tara Talwar Windsor

Topics

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Exile

Care Work

History

Petty-bourgeoisie

Medical and Environmental Crises

Assimilation