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Kathrin Röggla

wir schlafen nicht

we never sleep

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Neoliberalism

Capitalism

António Lobo Antunes

Os cus de Judas

The Land at the End of the World

Presented by:Marta Gburzyńska

Wars

Political Dictatorship

Colonialism

Imperialism

Decolonisation

Louis Aragon

Les Communistes

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

History

Nazism

Fascism

Communism

Partisans

France

Ádám Bodor

Sinistra körzet

The Sinistre Zone

Presented by:Boglárka Kodácsi

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Political Dictatorship

Socialism

Nikolai Ostrovsky

Как закалялась сталь (Kak zakalyalas stal)

How the Steel Was Tempered

Presented by:Karlo Držaić

Marxism–Leninism

Bolsheviks

Revolution

Stalinism

Civil War

Proletariat

Socialism

Väinö Linna

Tuntematon sotilas

The Unknown Soldier

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Class

Cynicism

Second World War

Military

Nationalism

Collective Memory

Mathias Énard

Zone

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Wars

Espionage

Civil War

August Cesarec

Careva kraljevina

Emperor’s Kingdom

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Prison Fiction

20th century

Austro-Hungarian Empire

Norman Manea

Plicul negru

The Black Envelope

Presented by: Brînduşa Nicolaescu

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Antisemitism

Fear

Juan Goytisolo

Señas de identidad

Marks of Identity

Presented by:Magda Potok

Authoritarianism

Centres and Peripheries

Spanish Civil War

Francoism

Annie Ernaux

La Femme gelée

A Frozen Woman

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Gender

Class

Feminism

Second-Wave Feminism

Cristina Morales

Lectura fácil

Easy Reading

Presented by:Marta Gburzyńska

Female Body

Capitalism

Democracy

Everyday Life

Anarchism

Materials

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Working Paper

The Digitalization of the Novel and Platformization of Cultural Production: Practices, Hierarchies, Texts. The Russian Case  

By: Anna Murashova

Book

Politics, Literature and Tertium Datur: Socialist Central Europe, 1928–1968

By: Ivana Perica

Audio

Podcast: Anti-fascist Literature

By: Ivana Perica

Working Paper

Response to Anna Murashova

By: Isabell A. Meske

Video

Conference: What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre - day 3

By: Andrea Milanko, Ana Tomljenović, Paul Stewart, Shambhavi Prakash, Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis, Błażej Warkocki, Nenad Ivić

Working Paper

The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era: An Introduction

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Topics

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Petty-bourgeoisie

Uprising

dispossession

Sexual Revolution

Second World War

Eco-criticism