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Madeleine Bourdouxhe

Sous le pont Mirabeau

Under the Bridge Mirabeau

Presented by:Dorota Walczak-Delanois

Wars

Second World War

Fascism

Motherhood

Saša Ilić

Pas i kontrabas

The Dog and the Double Bass

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Wars

Migrations

Emigration

Géza Ottlik

Iskola a határon

School at the Frontier

Presented by:Richárd Vincze

Goran Vojnović

Figa

The Fig Tree

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Yugoslavia

Brotherhood and Unity (Bratstvo i jedinstvo)

Tvrtko Kulenović

Kasino

Casino

Presented by:Zvonimir Glavaš

Imre Kertész

Sorstalanság

Fatelessness

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Antisemitism

Second World War

Nazism

Holocaust

Franz Kafka

Der Verschollene

Amerika: The Missing Person

Presented by:Ante Andabak

Migrations

Anti-capitalism

Georges Simenon

Le President

The President

Presented by:Dorota Walczak-Delanois

Political Corruption

Crisis

France

Georges Perec

W ou le souvenir d’enfance

W, or the Memory of Childhood

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Autobiography

Authoritarianism

Second World War

Nazism

Dystopian novel

Thomas Gunzig

Kuru

Presented by:Yoana Ganowski

Capitalism

Organised action

Individualism

Moral Panic

Max Winter

Matters II

Presented by:Anna Zsellér

Precariousness

Precariat

Working poor

Globalization

Anna Burns

Milkman

Presented by:Craig Jordan-Baker

Gender

The Troubles

Sectarianism

Paramilitarism

Class

Northern Ireland

Materials

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Book

The Political Uses of Literature: Global Perspectives and Theoretical Approaches, 1920–2020

By: Ivana Perica, Benjamin Kohlmann

Article

Keine Nebensache: Adania Shiblis politischer Roman

By: Ivana Perica

Video

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

By: Aurore Peyroles, Ivana Perica, Johanna-Charlotte Horst, Christoph Schaub, Anna Murashova, Isabell A. Meske, Joana Roqué Pesquer, Sophie Salvo, Elias Kreuzmair, Verónica Paula Gómez, Liam Connell, Tara Talwar Windsor, Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis, Inna Häkkinen, Anna-Lena Eick

Response to Verónica Paula Gómez

By: Liam Connell

Video

Workshop: Literary Politics and Geopolitics

By: Zrinka Božić, Mark Devenney, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub, Patrick Eiden-Offe, Charlotte Woodford, Nenad Ivić, Korbinian Lindel, Lisa Katharina Schmitz, Ekaterina Vassilieva, Fanny Wehner, Anna Björk Einarsdóttir, Max Roehl, Benjamin Kohlmann, Natalya Bekhta, Louis Aubry, Marina Sivak

Working Paper

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

By: Alina Bako, Paul Stewart

Topics

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Political novel

Nightlife

Emigration

Second World War

Politics of literature

Anti-communism