Depicting European federalists in fiction: Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi in Bernhard Setzwein’s <i>Der böhmische Samurai</i> (2017) and Heinrich Mann in Colm Tóibín’s <i>The Magician</i> (2021)

This article analyses the representation of Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi in Bernhard Setzwein’s Der böhmische Samurai (2017) and Heinrich Mann Colm Tóibín’s The Magician (2021). discussion is situated a number wider contexts, including literary European Studies within German Irish Literary Studies; existing representations federalists/Europeanists; actual thought Mann; oeuvre novelists Setzwein Tóibín. It argued that federalists recent novels enables us to analyse common attitudes understandings Europe Europeanness current environment Euroscepticism, self-questioning, self-doubt at institutional as well constituent levels. also are represented cosmopolitans: Both depicted wide variety transnational links, remaining deeply sceptical nationalism, especially its violent form, arguing for extension space political, beyond national. Their depiction is, thus, intellectual figures who laid some ideational groundwork creation later institutions, undertaking this reflective task from perspective an idealistic, pacifist democratic cosmopolitanism.