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Hilary Mantel

The Wolf Hall Trilogy

Presented by:Ante Andabak

Louis Aragon

La Semaine sainte

Holy Week

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Commitment

Fidelity

Antagonism

19th century

Military

Civil War

Georgi Gospodinov

Времеубежище (Vremeubezhishte)

Time Shelter

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Nostalgia

Socialism

Liberalism

Collective Memory

Fakir Baykurt

Yüksek Fırınlar

Blast Furnaces

Presented by:Duncan Lien

Gender

Class

Students’ movement

Second-Wave Feminism

Karin Struck

Klassenliebe

Class Love

Presented by:Christoph Schaub

Gender

Class

Students’ movement

Public / private

Second-Wave Feminism

Ignazio Silone

Fontamara

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Political Corruption

Italy

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Albert Camus

La Peste

The Plague

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Second World War

Nazism

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Epidemic

Ismail Kadare

Nënpunësi i pallatit të ëndrrave

The Palace of Dreams

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Authoritarianism

Ottoman Empire

People's Socialist Republic of Albania

Political Dictatorship

Political Corruption

Pajtim Statovci

Kissani Jugoslavia

My Cat Yugoslavia

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Exile

Identity

Yugoslavia

Vladimir Nabokov

Дар (Dar)

The Gift

Presented by:Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis

Exile

Bolsheviks

Cossacks

Revolution

David Albahari

Gec i Majer

Götz and Meyer

Presented by:Karlo Držaić

Antisemitism

Second World War

Nationalism

Holocaust

Vladan Desnica

Zimsko ljetovanje

The Winter Summer Vacation

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Wars

Racism

Balkanism

Class Hegemony

Second World War

Yugoslavia

Materials

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Video

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

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

Sophie Salvo: Impotent Forms: "Crabwalk" and the Political Novel

Video

Workshop: Political Novel in Europe and Migration/Exile

By: Caponeu Team

Elias Kreuzmair: Response to Sophie Salvo’s Contribution

Video

How to Read Political Novels? Lecture by Ivana Perica

By: Ivana Perica

Article

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

By: Marina Protrka Štimec

Topics

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Terror

Consumerism

Show trials

dystopian novel

Public / private

care work