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Ilmari Kianto

The Red Line

Punainen viiva

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Joseph Conrad

Under Western Eyes

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Revolution

Terrorism

Autocracy

Despotism

Political espionage

Reformism

Espionage

The Russian Revolution of 1905 (First Russian Revolution)

Cynicism

F. E. Sillanpää

Meek Heritage

Hurskas Kurjuus: Päättynyt Suomalainen Elämäkerta

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Elizabeth Bowen

The Last September

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Wars

Irish Independence

Colonialism

Irish War of Independence

Liviu Rebreanu

The Uprising

Răscoala

Presented by:Alina Bako

social class dynamics

parties

uprising

Vladimir Nabokov

The Gift

Дар (Dar)

Presented by:Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis

Exile

Bolsheviks

Cossacks

Revolution

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

1984

Presented by:Tea Hodaj

Dystopic Europes

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Politicisation of fear

Vladan Desnica

The Winter Summer Vacation

Zimsko ljetovanje

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Wars

Second world war

Racism

Balkanism

Morlacism

Class hegemony

Samuel Beckett

Molloy

Molloy 

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Violence

Marginalisation

Subjectification

Identity

Louis Aragon

Holy Week

La Semaine sainte

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Commitment

Fidelity

Civil war

Antagonism

19th century

Military

Hubert Fichte

Detlev’s Imitations

Detlevs Imitationen “Grünspan”

Presented by:Shambhavi Prakash

Second world war

Students’ movement

Blitzkrieg

Allied bombings

Karin Struck

Class Love

Klassenliebe

Presented by:Christoph Schaub

Gender

Feminism

Class

Students’ movement

Public / private

Second-wave feminism

Michael Scharang

Charly Traktor

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Class

Public / private

Workerism

Autonomism

Province / periphery

Political parties (SPÖ, ÖVP, KPÖ)

East vs. West

Upward mobility

Milan Kundera

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Kniha smíchu a zapomnění

Presented by:Anna Gawarecka

Marxism–Leninism

Public / private

Prague Spring 1968

Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Everyday life

Ismail Kadare

The Palace of Dreams

Nënpunësi i pallatit të ëndrrave

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Political corruption

Authoritarianism

Ottoman Empire

Political dictatorship

People's Socialist Republic of Albania

Fakir Baykurt

Blast Furnaces

Yüksek Fırınlar

Presented by:Duncan Lien

Gender

Class

Students’ movement

Second-wave feminism

Norman Manea

The Black Envelope

Plicul negru

Presented by: Brînduşa Nicolaescu

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Politicisation of fear

Antisemitism

David Albahari

Götz and Meyer

Gec i Majer

Presented by:Karlo Držaić

Second world war

Antisemitism

The Holocaust

Nationalism

Daša Drndić

Canzone di guerra

Canzone di guerra: nove davorije

Presented by:Mirela Dakić

Economic downfall and scarcity

Gender

Migrations

Totalitarianism

Second world war

Yugoslav wars

Benjamin Zephaniah

Refugee Boy

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Migrations

Racism

Institutional racism

Political asylum

Pan-Africanism

Rastafari

Black identity

Annie Ernaux

The Years

Les Années 

Presented by:Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Petty-bourgeoisie

Sexual revolution

French postwar politics

Feminism

Pierre Michon

The Eleven

Les Onze

Presented by:Nenad Ivić

French Revolution

Historiography

History

Politics

Image

Pajtim Statovci

My Cat Yugoslavia

Kissani Jugoslavia

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Exile

Identity

Yugoslav wars

Michel Houellebecq

Submission

Soumission

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Dystopic Europes

Authoritarianism

Politicisation of fear

Islam

Political elections

Reactionism