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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

Ignazio Silone

Brot und Wein

Bread and Wine

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Wars

Political Dictatorship

Fascism

Socialism

Organised action

Patriarchy

Catholicism

Protestantism

Alain van Crugten

La dictature des ignares

The Dictatorship of the Ignoramuses

Presented by:Dorota Walczak-Delanois

Authoritarianism

Students’ movement

History

East vs. West

Juan Goytisolo

Señas de identidad

Marks of Identity

Presented by:Magda Potok

Authoritarianism

Centres and Peripheries

Spanish Civil War

Francoism

Max Winter

Matters II

Presented by:Anna Zsellér

Precariousness

Precariat

Working poor

Globalization

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

Benjamin Zephaniah

Refugee Boy

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Migrations

Racism

Pan-Africanism

Rastafari

Political Asylum

Black Identity

Deniz Ohde

Streulicht

Sky Glow

Presented by:Christoph Schaub

Migrations

Precariousness

Racism

Class

Norman Manea

Plicul negru

The Black Envelope

Presented by: Brînduşa Nicolaescu

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Antisemitism

Fear

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

Sofi Oksanen

Puhdistus

Purge

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Identity

Feminism

Female Body

Nationalism

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

D’un château l’autre

Castle to Castle

Presented by:Ivan Silobrčić

Antisemitism

Second World War

Fascism

Materials

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Reading Group Resources

How to Start a Reading Group

By: Sarah Colvin, Tara Talwar Windsor

Article

Competitive Words: Identity Counts in Large Amounts

By: Ivana Perica

Video

Workshop: Political Novel in Europe and Migration/Exile

By: Caponeu Team

Article

Dispositions and Dispossessions: Interwar Left-Wing Literary Writing in Vienna and Zagreb

By: Ivana Perica

Working Paper Collection

The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era (Caponeu Working Papers)

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

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

Topics

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Balkanism

Female Politicians

Vulnerability

Terror

Bolsheviks

Symbolic Turning Points