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László Krasznahorkai

Herscht 07769

Presented by:Richárd Vincze

Fakir Baykurt

Yüksek Fırınlar

Blast Furnaces

Presented by:Duncan Lien

Gender

Class

Students’ movement

Second-Wave Feminism

Serhiy Zhadan

Ворошиловград (Voroshylovhrad)

Voroshilovgrad

Presented by:Sarah Colvin

Adania Shibli

Minor Detail

تفصيل ثانوي (Tafṣīl Ṯānawī)

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Nakba

Cancellation

Deplatforming

George Orwell

1984

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Presented by:Tea Hodaj

Dystopic Europes

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Public / private

Fear

Cold War

Tvrtko Kulenović

Kasino

Casino

Presented by:Zvonimir Glavaš

Fedor Gladkov

Цемент (Cement)

Cement

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Gender

Marxism–Leninism

Bolsheviks

Class

Petty-bourgeoisie

Proletariat

Honest Intelligentsia

Socialism

Louis Aragon

La Semaine sainte

Holy Week

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Commitment

Fidelity

Antagonism

19th century

Military

Civil War

Ivo Andrić

Travnička hronika. Konsulska vremena

Bosnian Chronicle

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Balkanism

Ottoman Empire

Diplomacy

Mathias Énard

Zone

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Wars

Espionage

Civil War

Albert Camus

La Peste

The Plague

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Second World War

Nazism

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Epidemic

Goran Vojnović

Jugoslavija, moja dežela

Yugoslavia, My Homeland

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Identity

Wars

Collective Memory

Language

Yugoslavia

Materials

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Article

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

By: Paul Stewart

Video

What’s Novel about a Novel? Storytelling and Travelling Knowledge

By: Miriam Schwarz, Tara Talwar Windsor

Verónica Paula Gómez: Beyond the Idea of Nation: The Political Domicile of Digital Literature in the Interzone

Working Paper

Charles Sabatos: “Reimagining Political Peripheries in Pišťanek’s and Boldizar’s Siberian Slovakia.” & Nina Weller: “Response to Charles Sabatos.”

By: Charles Sabatos, Nina Weller

Reading Group Resources

Questions for Reading Groups

By: Sarah Colvin, Tara Talwar Windsor

Working Paper Collection

Kyung-Ho Cha, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub (Eds.): European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel (Caponeu Working Papers)

By: Kyung-Ho Cha, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub

Topics

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Revolution

Anti-communism

Vulnerability

Autobiography

Technology

Communism