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David Albahari

Gec i Majer

Götz and Meyer

Presented by:Karlo Držaić

Antisemitism

Second World War

Nationalism

Holocaust

Cesare Pavese

La Luna e i Falò

The Moon and the Bonfires

Presented by:Florentia Antoniou

Exile

Identity

Class

Second World War

Theis Ørntoft

Jordisk

Earthly

Presented by:Troels Thorborg Andersen

Capitalism

Geopolitics

Climate Crisis

Consumerism

Andrzej Szczypiorski

Msza za miasto Arras

A Mass for Arras

Presented by:Gerard Ronge

Antisemitism

Censorship

Scapegoating

Moral Panic

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

D’un château l’autre

Castle to Castle

Presented by:Ivan Silobrčić

Antisemitism

Second World War

Fascism

Mathias Énard

Zone

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Wars

Espionage

Civil War

Carmen Laforet

Nada

Presented by:Florentia Antoniou

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Existentialism

Civil War

Bildungsroman

Ivo Andrić

Travnička hronika. Konsulska vremena

Bosnian Chronicle

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Balkanism

Ottoman Empire

Diplomacy

Christa Wolf

Der geteilte Himmel

They Divided the Sky

Presented by:Katie Unwin

Berlin

Cold War

Individualism

Liliana Corobca

Caiet de cenzor

The Censor’s Notebook

Presented by:Cristina Spinei

Central and Eastern Europe

Communism

Cold War

Anti-communism

Censorship

Vladan Desnica

Zimsko ljetovanje

The Winter Summer Vacation

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Wars

Racism

Balkanism

Class Hegemony

Second World War

Yugoslavia

Georges Perec

W ou le souvenir d’enfance

W, or the Memory of Childhood

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Autobiography

Authoritarianism

Second World War

Nazism

Dystopian novel

Materials

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Storytelling

The Political Novel: A Palimpsest

By: Ivana Perica

Article

Keine Nebensache: Adania Shiblis politischer Roman

By: Ivana Perica

Article

“Perché i xe bestie?!” Politics, race and exclusion in Vladan Desnica’s The Winter Summer Vacation

By: Marina Protrka Štimec

Working Paper

“Vlastimil Vondruška and the Inevitable Demise of Europe” and “Being East European (from a Polish perspective). Response”

By: Błażej Warkocki, Stefan Segi

Video

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

By: Zrinka Božić, Mark Devenney, Zvonimir Glavaš, Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Video

Rethinking the Political: Narrative, Protest and Fiction in the 21st Century

Topics

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Crisis

Show trials

19th century

Liberalism

Literary politics

Estrangement