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Orhan Pamuk

Kar

Snow

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Female Body

East vs. West

Islam

Language

Theis Ørntoft

Jordisk

Earthly

Presented by:Troels Thorborg Andersen

Capitalism

Geopolitics

Climate Crisis

Consumerism

Dezső Kosztolányi

Édes Anna

Anna Édes

Presented by:Gábor Tamás Molnár

Class

Domestic Servitude

Right-Wing Restoration

Hungarian Commune of 1919

Belén Gopegui

La conquista del aire

Conquering the Air

Presented by:Marta Gburzyńska

Class

Capitalism

Democracy

Louis Aragon

Les Communistes

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

History

Nazism

Fascism

Communism

Partisans

France

Dinçer Güçyeter

Unser Deutschlandmärchen

Our Fairy Tale of Germany

Presented by:Kyung-Ho Cha

Migrations

Guest Worker

Daša Drndić

Canzone di guerra: nove davorije

Canzone di guerra

Presented by:Mirela Dakić

Gender

Migrations

Totalitarianism

Second World War

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Yugoslavia

Karin Struck

Klassenliebe

Class Love

Presented by:Christoph Schaub

Gender

Class

Students’ movement

Public / private

Second-Wave Feminism

Hubert Fichte

Detlevs Imitationen “Grünspan”

Detlev’s Imitations

Presented by:Shambhavi Prakash

Allied Bombings

Students’ movement

Second World War

Blitzkrieg

Samuel Beckett

Molloy 

Molloy

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Violence

Marginalisation

Subjectification

Identity

Ivo Andrić

Travnička hronika. Konsulska vremena

Bosnian Chronicle

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Balkanism

Ottoman Empire

Diplomacy

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

Materials

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Video

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

Article

Ivana Perica and Aurore Peyroles: Who’s afraid of the political novel? An introduction

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Working Paper

Alexandra Irimia: “Bureaucracies of Memory. Institutionalized History in Four Contemporary European Novels.” & Stephen Shapiro: “Response to Alexandra Irimia.”

By: Alexandra Irimia, Stephen Shapiro

Thinking the Political: Theory, Literature, Practice

Working Paper

Ivana Perica and Aurore Peyroles: The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era: An Introduction

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Working Paper

Alina Bako: “Semi-peripheral Nodes and the Circulation of Political Ideas. The Case of a Romanian Novel.” & Paul Stewart: “Uneven and Combined Development in the Centre of Modernism: Beckett, Joyce, London and Dublin. Response to Alina Bako"

By: Alina Bako, Paul Stewart

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