The topic of the paper is the problem of the genre of political novel, ie the presence of "political" in novels of South Slavic literature, primarily in the intercultural social context with a focus on Montenegrin-Serbian writers, as well as in the context of contemporary history of Southeast and Central Europe. This genre in the South Slavic, especially Montenegrin-Serbian inter-literary context has not yet been scientifically and methodologically systematically studied and presented, although there are critical and scientific reviews that indicate its presence in literary production. The novels included in this paper thematize the political concepts of the twentieth century, so in the broadest sense they can be considered within the genre of political novel, including its subgenre variants. Starting from the methodological settings of authors such as Dionyz Đurišin and Zvonko Kovač, this paper adopts a specific model of contextualizing literature in the period between 1950 and 1980, with special reference to individual canonical authors and works that will be the subject of interpretation. The aim of this paper is to give a description of the genre of a political novel, the context of the origin of a political novel, to bring its typology, to provide an interpretation of one of the works that confirms the typological relevance of the thesis. This doctoral dissertation will, through theoretical and scientific interpretation, critical approaches to the political novel, standardize this genre, which in its practice shows very diverse structural personalities, and try to present a multifaceted and consistent genre-typological picture, describe the fluidity of the political concept, and complex narrative, referential and fictional relationship formed within this type of novel. The results obtained by the author in this paper suggest that the political novel as a genre is a contradictory, borderline, polyphonic, subversive product of a modernist project that tells the story of an alienated man (political rebel) in totalitarian political regimes. The political novel in South Slavic literatures (in the intercultural context) in general, and especially within the Montenegrin-Serbian inter-literary community, is a specific genre of the novel in relation to the political novel written in the West, an inter-literary phenomenon that was a critique of the Titoist regime and a literary response to the poetics and politics of social realism. It is conditioned by specific historical-political and social movements during the XX century. His aesthetic conception of reality is utopian and satirical, which is at the same time an avant-garde optimal projection. The narrative of the political novel is a poetic resistance to ideological consciousness and a dogmatic view of reality.