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Dezső Kosztolányi

Édes Anna

Anna Édes

Presented by:Gábor Tamás Molnár

Class

Domestic Servitude

Right-Wing Restoration

Hungarian Commune of 1919

Andrzej Szczypiorski

Msza za miasto Arras

A Mass for Arras

Presented by:Gerard Ronge

Antisemitism

Censorship

Scapegoating

Moral Panic

Dubravka Ugrešić

Ministarstvo boli

The Ministry of Pain

Presented by:Ewa Szperlik

Identity

Migrations

Yugoslavia

Alain van Crugten

La dictature des ignares

The Dictatorship of the Ignoramuses

Presented by:Dorota Walczak-Delanois

Authoritarianism

Students’ movement

History

East vs. West

George Orwell

1984

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Presented by:Tea Hodaj

Dystopic Europes

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Public / private

Fear

Cold War

Tadeusz Konwicki

Mała apokalipsa

The Minor Apocalypse

Presented by:Zofia Paetz

Dissidence

Anti-communism

Censorship

Kim Mehmeti

Shpërngulja e të vdekurve

Exodus of the Dead

Presented by:Tea Hodaj

Identity

Gender

Migrations

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

Fedor Gladkov

Цемент (Cement)

Cement

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Gender

Marxism–Leninism

Bolsheviks

Class

Petty-bourgeoisie

Proletariat

Honest Intelligentsia

Socialism

Vjenceslav Novak

Majstor Adam

Master Adam

Presented by:Karlo Držaić

Class

Nationalism

Socialism

Moral Panic

Amélie Nothomb

Le Sabotage Amoureux

Loving sabotage

Presented by:Yoana Ganowski

Diplomacy

Communism

Cold War

People's Republic of China

Carmen Laforet

Nada

Presented by:Florentia Antoniou

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Existentialism

Civil War

Bildungsroman

Materials

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Article

Paul Stewart: Fundamental operations of the political in Beckett’s Molloy

By: Paul Stewart

Working Paper

Mónika Dánél: “Multilingual Minority: Poetical Decomposition of the Embodied Dictatorial Legacy.” & Philipp Wegmann: “Entrapment and Resistance. Language and Power in Andrea Tompa’s 'The Hangman’s House'. Response to Mónika Dánél.”

By: Mónika Dánél, Philipp Wegmann

Video

Thinking the Political Workshop - part 4

By: Prathama Banerjee, German Primera

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

Conference Collection

Conference collection: What is the Political Novel? Defining the Genre

Article

Marina Protrka Štimec: “Perché i xe bestie?!” Politics, race and exclusion in Vladan Desnica’s The Winter Summer Vacation

By: Marina Protrka Štimec

Topics

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Northern Ireland

Nazism

Class

Feminist reading

anti-capitalism

Holocaust