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Marta Sanz

Clavícula

Clavicle

Presented by:Magda Potok

Gender

Age

GFC (Global Financial Crisis) of 2008

Vulnerability

Precariousness

Female Body

Michel Houellebecq

Soumission

Submission

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Dystopic Europes

Authoritarianism

Fear

Islam

Reactionism

Political Elections

Adania Shibli

Minor Detail

تفصيل ثانوي (Tafṣīl Ṯānawī)

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Danilo Kiš

Peščanik

Hourglass

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Totalitarianism

Antisemitism

Second World War

Holocaust

Alberts Bels

Būris

The Cage

Presented by:Daria Banasiewicz

Totalitarianism

Existentialism

Surveillance

Dissidence

Fakir Baykurt

Yüksek Fırınlar

Blast Furnaces

Presented by:Duncan Lien

Gender

Class

Students’ movement

Second-Wave Feminism

Louis Aragon

La Semaine sainte

Holy Week

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Commitment

Fidelity

Antagonism

19th century

Military

Civil War

Carmen Laforet

Nada

Presented by:Florentia Antoniou

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Existentialism

Civil War

Bildungsroman

Borislav Pekić

Besnilo: žanr roman

Rabies: genre novel

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Carlo Levi

L'Orologio

The Watch

Presented by:Silvia Valentini

Revolution

Second World War

Reactionism

Italy

Liliana Corobca

Caiet de cenzor

The Censor’s Notebook

Presented by:Cristina Spinei

Central and Eastern Europe

Communism

Cold War

Anti-communism

Censorship

Karel Čapek

Wálka s mloky

The War with the Newts

Presented by:Anna Gawarecka

Dystopic Europes

Totalitarianism

Colonialism

Nazism

Stalinism

Materials

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Video

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

By: Aurore Peyroles, Ivana Perica, Johanna-Charlotte Horst, Christoph Schaub

Working Paper

Stefan Segi: “Vlastimil Vondruška and the Inevitable Demise of Europe.” & Błażej Warkocki: “Being East European (from a Polish perspective). Response to Stefan Segi.”

By: Stefan Segi, Błażej Warkocki

Video

Political Novel through Migrant Info Point's Eyes – Interview with Alicja Skrzypczak and Marta Kowalczyk

By: Marta Kowalczyk, Alicja Skrzypczak

Article

Błażej Warkocki: From Poland with love: Politics of queerness in the time of neoliberal post-socialism (the case of Michał Witkowski)

By: Błażej Warkocki

Video

Political Novel in Historiographical and Sociological Perspective: Structures and Analogies - part 2

By: Mirela Dakić, Goran Pavlić, Ante Andabak, Branimir Janković

Video

Literature in Times of Crisis: What Can the Novel Do? Roundtable with Heike Geißler, Alhierd Bacharevič and Maryam Aras

By: Ivana Perica, Patrick Eiden-Offe, Heike Geißler, Alhierd Bacharevič, Maryam Aras

Topics

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dystopian novel

Terrorism

Hungarian Commune of 1919

Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Scapegoating

Sexual Revolution