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Albert Camus

La Peste

The Plague

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Second World War

Nazism

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Epidemic

Elizabeth Bowen

The Last September

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Wars

Irish Independence

Colonialism

Irish War of Independence

Michał Witkowski

Lubiewo

Lovetown

Presented by:Błażej Warkocki

Neoliberalism

Queer

LGBT

Central and Eastern Europe

Non-binary

Adania Shibli

Minor Detail

تفصيل ثانوي (Tafṣīl Ṯānawī)

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Nakba

Cancellation

Deplatforming

Pajtim Statovci

Kissani Jugoslavia

My Cat Yugoslavia

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Exile

Identity

Yugoslavia

Orhan Pamuk

Kar

Snow

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Female Body

East vs. West

Islam

Language

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

Karel Čapek

Válka s mloky

The War with the Newts

Presented by:Anna Gawarecka

Dystopic Europes

Totalitarianism

Colonialism

Nazism

Stalinism

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Один день Ивана Денисовича (Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Presented by:Zvonimir Glavaš

Stalinism

Prison Fiction

Gulag

Cold War

Fakir Baykurt

Yüksek Fırınlar

Blast Furnaces

Presented by:Duncan Lien

Gender

Class

Students’ movement

Second-Wave Feminism

Arthur Koestler

Darkness at Noon

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Bolsheviks

Stalinism

Fascism

Anti-communism

Show trials

Organised action

Individualism

Ivo Brešan

Ispovijedi nekarakternog čovjeka

Confessions of an Amoral Man

Presented by:Andrea Milanko

Materials

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Article

Nenad Ivić: Is Pierre Michon’s "The Eleven" a political novel?

By: Nenad Ivić

Reading Group Resources

Questions for Reading Groups

By: Sarah Colvin, Tara Talwar Windsor

Video

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

By: Marta Kowalczyk, Alicja Skrzypczak

Video

Conference: What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre - day 2

By: Polina Mackay, Marina Protrka Štimec, Mirela Dakić, Magda Potok, Vedrana Veličković, Rahul Putty

Audio

Podcast: Periphery and banishment

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Jospeh Ponthus, Louis-Ferdinand Céline

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

Topics

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Wars

Allied Bombings

Cybernetics

Violence

Yugoslavia

Marxism