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Péter Nádas

Párhuzamos történetek

Parallel Stories

Presented by:Richárd Vincze

Ramón María del Valle-Inclán

Tirano Banderas: Novela de tierra caliente

Tyrant Banderas

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Political Dictatorship

Danilo Kiš

Grobnica za Borisa Davidoviča

A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Marxism–Leninism

Bolsheviks

Revolution

History

Internment

Second World War

Stalinism

Prison Fiction

Civil War

Gulag

Goran Vojnović

Jugoslavija, moja dežela

Yugoslavia, My Homeland

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Identity

Wars

Collective Memory

Language

Yugoslavia

Kallia Papadaki

Δενδρίτες / Dendrítes

Dendrites

Presented by:Niki Sioki

Identity

Racism

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Crisis

Emigration

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

Karin Struck

Klassenliebe

Class Love

Presented by:Christoph Schaub

Gender

Class

Students’ movement

Public / private

Second-Wave Feminism

Saša Stanišić

Herkunft

Where You Come From

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Pajtim Statovci

Kissani Jugoslavia

My Cat Yugoslavia

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Exile

Identity

Yugoslavia

Theis Ørntoft

Jordisk

Earthly

Presented by:Troels Thorborg Andersen

Capitalism

Geopolitics

Climate Crisis

Consumerism

Italo Calvino

Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno

The Path to the Spiders' Nests

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Second World War

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Jaan Kross

The Czar's Madman

Keisri hull

Presented by:Daria Banasiewicz

Authoritarianism

Revolution

Terrorism

Materials

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Article

Reparative Democracy: Testing the Borders of the Political. Interview with Wendy Brown

Article

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

By: Ivana Perica

Working Paper

Digital (Paratextual) Economies in And Other Stories and Jessi Jezewska Stevens’s "The Visitors" (2022): Between Autonomy and Subsumption

By: Joana Roqué Pesquer

Video

Workshop: Thinking the Political (part 1)

By: Vedrana Veličković, Oliver Marchart

Video

Workshop: Thinking the Political (part 2)

By: Clare Woodford, Allan Hansen

Working Paper Collection

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

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Topics

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Prague Spring 1968

housing crisis

Central and Eastern Europe

African Authors in Europe

Postcolonialism

Class Hegemony