Toward a reading of political novels -- Time, presence, ethics: imagining a shared reality -- V.S. Naipaul: from satire and society to politics -- Graham Greene: political virtue and the fiction of innocence -- The head of state and the politics of eternal return in Latin America-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: politics and the facts of life -- Nadine Gordimer: public and private -- Political holocaust fiction. The voyage of Jorge Semprun ; George Steiner's holocaust: politics and theology -- Günter Grass: negativity and the subversion of paradigms -- Between east and west: a letter to Milan Kundera.