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Belén Gopegui

La conquista del aire

Conquering the Air

Presented by:Marta Gburzyńska

Class

Capitalism

Democracy

Stanisław Brzozowski

Płomienie. Z papierów po Michale Kaniowskim

Flames. From the Papers of Michal Kaniowski

Presented by:Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Class

Terrorism

Elvira Navarro

La trabajadora

A Working Woman

Presented by:Magda Potok

GFC (Global Financial Crisis) of 2008

Neoliberalism

Precariat

Vjekoslav Kaleb

Divota Prašine

Glorious Dust

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Yugoslavia

Communism

Partisans

Ignazio Silone

Brot und Wein

Bread and Wine

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Wars

Political Dictatorship

Fascism

Socialism

Organised action

Patriarchy

Catholicism

Protestantism

Ignazio Silone

Fontamara

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Political Corruption

Italy

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Michel Houellebecq

Soumission

Submission

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Dystopic Europes

Authoritarianism

Fear

Islam

Reactionism

Political Elections

Christa Wolf

Der geteilte Himmel

They Divided the Sky

Presented by:Katie Unwin

Berlin

Cold War

Individualism

Imre Kertész

Sorstalanság

Fatelessness

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Antisemitism

Second World War

Nazism

Holocaust

Mathias Énard

Zone

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Wars

Espionage

Civil War

Danilo Kiš

Peščanik

Hourglass

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Totalitarianism

Antisemitism

Second World War

Holocaust

Borislav Pekić

Besnilo: žanr roman

Rabies: genre novel

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Materials

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Article

Nenad Ivić: Is Pierre Michon’s "The Eleven" a political novel?

By: Nenad Ivić

Video

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

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

Working Paper

Isabell A. Meske: Response to Anna Murashova’s contribution

Video

Thinking the Political Workshop - part 2

By: Clare Woodford, Allan Hansen

Video

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

By: Polina Mackay, Marina Protrka Štimec, Mirela Dakić, Magda Potok, Vedrana Veličković, Rahul Putty

Thinking the Political: Theory, Literature, Practice

Topics

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Political resistance

Islam

Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Intersectionality

Careerism

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