• Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood (B+) - Modern Albanian Short Stories, ed. Robert Elsie
  
  
• AJVAZ, Michal (Czech Republic):
  • The Golden Age (A-)
  • The Other City (B-)
• ALBAHARI, David (Serbia):
  • Bait (A-)
  • Götz and Meyer (A-)
  • [Leeches]
  • [Snow Man]
  • Tsing (B+)
  • Words are something else (A-)
• ANDRUKHOVYCH, Yuri (Ukraine):
  • Дванадцять обручів (B)
  • The Moscoviad (B+)
  • Perverzion (B+)
  • Recreations (B)
  • Таємниця (B)
• BARTIS, Attila (Hungary): Tranquility (B)
• BARTOL, Vladimir (Slovenia): Alamut (B+)
• BASARA, Svetislav (former Yugoslavia):
  • Chinese Letter (B+)
  • The Cyclist Conspiracy (B)
• BAZDULJ, Muharem (Bosnia):
  • The Second Book (B+)
  • Tranzit, kometa, pomračenje (B)
• BIEŃCZYK, Marek (Poland): Tworki (B+)
• BITOV, Andrei (USSR): Pushkin House (B+)
• BLATNIK, Andrej (Slovenia): You Do Understand (B+)
• BLECHER, M. (Romania):
  • Scarred Hearts (B+)
  • Întâmplări în irealitatea imediată (B+)
• BRAUN, Volker (East Germany):
  • Auf die schönen Possen (B+)
  • Berichte von Hinze und Kunze (B+)
  • Hinze-Kunze-Roman (A-)
  • Lustgarten, Preußen (A-)
  • Das unbesetzte Gebiet (A-)
  • Die Unvollendete Geschichte und ihr Ende (A-)
  • Werktage (B+)
  • What's Really Wanted (B+)
• BUIDA, Yuri (Russia): The Zero Train (B)
• CELAN, Paul (Romania): Romanian Poems (B+)
• COHEN, Léa (Bulgaria): Консорциум Alternus (B)
• DALOS György (Hungary): The Circumcision (B)
• DERESCH, Ljubko (Ukraine):
  • Культ (B)
  • Поклоніння ящірці (B)
• DOMBROVSKY, Yury (USSR):
  • The Faculty of Useless Knowledge (A-)
  • The Keeper of Antiquities (A-)
• DOROSHEVICH, Vlas (Russia): What the Emperor Cannot Do (A-)
• ELIADE, Mircea (Romania): Youth without Youth (C)
• EROFEYEV, Victor (USSR): Хороший Сталин (A-)
• ERPENBECK, Jenny (East Germany): Visitation (A-)
• ESTERHÁZY Péter (Hungary):
  • The Book of Hrabal (A-)
  • Not Art (B+)
  • Utazás a tizenhatos mélyére (B+)
• FERIĆ, Zoran (former Yugoslavia): The Death of the Little Match Girl (B+)
• FLORIAN, Filip (Romania):
  • The Days of the King (B)
  • Little Fingers (B)
• GALLEGO, Ruben (USSR): White on Black (B+)
• GELASIMOV, Andrei (Russia): The Lying Year (B-)
• GOMBROWICZ, Witold (Poland):
  • Bacacay (B+)
  • Trans-Atlantyk (C-)
• GOSPODINOV, Georgi (Bulgaria):
  • And Other Stories (B)
  • Natural Novel (B+)
• [GROSSMAN, Vasily (USSR): Life and Fate]
• GRÜNBEIN, Durs (East Germany):
  • See the complete review's Durs Grünbein page
  • Ashes for Breakfast (B)
  • Erklärte Nacht (B+)
  • Das erste Jahr (B+)
  • Galilei vermißt Dantes Hölle (B+)
  • Grauzone morgens (B+)
  • Porzellan (B+)
  • Schädelbasislektion (A-)
  • Den Teuren Toten (B+)
  • Vom Schnee
  • Warum schriftlos leben (B)
• HAKL, Emil (Czech Republic): Of Kids & Parents (B+)
• HEIN, Christoph (East Germany):
  • In seiner frühen Kindheit ein Garten (B)
  • Landnahme (B+)
  • Willenbrock (B+)
• HERBERT, Zbigniew (Poland):
  • See the complete review's: Zbigniew Herbert page
  • Elegy for the Departure (B+)
  • The King of the Ants (B-)
  • Mr Cogito (A+)
  • Report from the Besieged City (A)
  • Still Life with a Bridle (B+)
• HIRŠAL, Josef (Czechoslovakia): A Bohemian Youth (B+)
• HOLUB, Miroslav (Czechoslovakia):
  • See the complete review's: Miroslav Holub page
  • Interferon, or On Theater (A-)
  • The Jingle Bell Principle (B-)
  • Poems: Before & After (A+)
  • The Rampage (A-)
  • Shedding Life (A)
  • Supposed to Fly (B)
  • Vanishing Lung Syndrome (A)
• HRABAL, Bohumil (Czechoslovakia):
  • In-House Weddings (B+)
  • Vita Nuova (B+)
• HUELLE, Paweł (Poland): Mercedes-Benz (B+)
• IKONNIKOV, Alexander (Russia): Lizka and her Men (B)
• IGOV, Angel (Bulgaria): A Short Tale of Shame (B)
• ILF and PETROV (Soviet Union):
  • The Twelve Chairs (A-)
  • The Golden Calf (A-)
• JANCAR, Drago (Slovenia):
  • Mocking Desire (B)
  • Northern Lights (B+)
• JASIEŃSKI, Bruno (Poland): I Burn Paris (B)
• KADARE, Ismail (Albania):
  • The Accident (B-)
  • The Fall of the Stone City (B+)
  • The Successor (A-)
• KAPITÁŇOVÁ, Daniela (Slovakia): Samko Tále's Cemetery Book (B)
• KARINTHY Ferenc (Hungary): Metropole (B+)
• KERTÉSZ Imre (Hungary):
  • See the complete review's Kertész Imre page.
  • Detective Story (B+)
  • Dossier K. (A-)
  • Fatelessness (B+)
  • Fiasco (A-)
  • The Holocaust as Culture (B+)
  • Kaddish for an Unborn Child (A)
  • Liquidation (A-)
  • The Pathseeker (B+)
  • The Union Jack (A-)
  • Valaki más (A-)
• KHASAVOV, Arslan (Russia): Sense (B)
• KIŠ, Danilo (Yugoslavia):
  • Garden, Ashes (B+)
  • Mansarda (B)
  • A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (B+)
• KLÍMA, Ladislav (Czech):
  • Glorious Nemesis (B+)
  • The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch (B+)
• KONGOLI, Fatos (Albania): The Loser (A-)
• KOSZTOLÁNYI Dezső (Hungary):
  • Anna Édes (B+)
  • Kornél Esti (A-)
  • Skylark (B+)
• KRAJEWSKI, Marek (Poland): The End of the World in Breslau (B)
• KRÁL, Petr (Czechoslovakia): Working Knowledge (B)
• KRASZNAHORKAI László (Hungary):
  • Animalinside (-)
  • Satantango (B+)
• KRLEŽA, Miroslav (Croatia): The Banquet in Blitva (B+)
• KRZHIZHANOVSKY, Sigizmund (Soviet Union):
  • The Letter Killers Club (A-)
  • Memories of the Future (A-)
  • Seven Stories (A-)
• KUNDERA, Milan (Czechoslovakia):
  • The Curtain (B+)
  • Identity (B)
  • See also: François Ricard's Agnès's Final Afternoon
• KURKOV, Andrey (Ukraine):
  • The Case of the General's Thumb (B)
  • Death and the Penguin (A-)
  • A Matter of Death and Life (B)
  • Penguin Lost (B+)
• LEM, Stanislaw (Poland): A Stanislaw Lem Reader (Ed.: Peter Swirski) (B-)
• LIBERA, Antoni (Poland): Madame (B)
• LLESHANAKU, Luljeta (Albania): Fresco (B)
• LUCA, Ghérasim (Romania): The Passive Vampire (-)
• MANEA, Norman (Romania): The Lair (B)
• MÁRAI Sándor (Hungary):
  • Casanova in Bolzano (UK title: Conversations in Bolzano) (B)
  • Embers (B+)
  • Esther's Inheritance (B)
  • Napló 1984-1989 (A-)
  • The Rebels (B)
• MARIENGOF, Anatoly (USSR):
  • Cynics (B+)
  • A Novel Without Lies (B+)
• MARINKOVIĆ, Ranko (former Yugoslavia): Cyclops (B+)
• [MARKOVIĆ, Barbi (Serbia): Izlaženje]
• MAZZINI, Miha (Slovenia): The Cartier Project (B)
• MERAS, Icchokas (Lithuania): Stalemate (B+)
• MICKEL, Karl (East Germany): Einstein (A-)
• MIŁOSZEWSKI, Zygmunt (Poland): Entanglement (B)
• MONÍKOVÁ, Libuse (Czechoslovakia):
  • The Facade (A-)
  • Der Taumel (B+)
• MORGNER, Irmtraud (East Germany): The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by her Minstrel Laura (A+)
• MÜLLER, Herta (Romania): See the complete review's Herta Müller page
• NAUM, Gellu (Romania):
  • My Tired Father (B-)
  • Zenobia (B)
• OLESHA, Yuri (USSR): Envy (B)
• ÖRKÉNY, István (Hungary): One Minute Stories (B+)
• OUŘEDNÍK, Patrik (Czechoslovakia):
  • Case Closed (A-)
  • Europeana (A-)
  • The Opportune Moment, 1855 (B)
• PASTIOR, Oskar (Romania): o du roher iasmin (-)
• PEKIĆ, Borislav (Yugoslavia):
  • The Apology and the Last Days (B)
  • How to Quiet a Vampire (A-)
• PELEVIN, Victor (Russia):
  • The Hall of the Singing Caryatids (B)
  • The Helmet of Horror (B-)
  • The Sacred Book of the Werewolf (B-)
• PETRUSHEVSKAYA, Ludmilla (Russia): There Once Lived a Girl who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself (B)
• PILCH, Jerzy (Poland):
  • His Current Woman (B+)
  • The Mighty Angel (B+)
  • My First Suicide (B+)
  • A Thousand Peaceful Cities (B+)
• PIŠT'ANEK, Peter (Slovakia):
  • The End of Freddy (A-)
  • Rivers of Babylon (A-)
  • The Wooden Village (B+)
• PLATONOV, Andrey (USSR): Happy Moscow (B+)
• POPOV, Alek (Bulgaria): Мисия Лондон (B)
• PYETSUKH, Vyacheslav (USSR): The New Moscow Philosophy (B+)
• REJTŐ Jenő (Hungary): Quarantine in the Grand Hotel (B)
• RUSKOV, Milen (Bulgaria): Thrown into Nature (B)
• SEBASTIAN, Mihail (Romania): The Accident (B)
• SELIMOVIC, Mesa (Yugoslavia):
  • Death and the Dervish (A)
  • The Fortress (B+)
• SHISHKIN, Mikhail (Russia): Maidenhair (A-)
• SHKLOVSKY, Viktor (USSR):
  • A Hunt for Optimism (B)
  • Knight's Move (B)
  • Third Factory (B+)
  • See also Serena Vitale's Shklovsky: Witness to an Era (B-)
• SKVORECKY, Josef (Czechoslovakia):
  • An Inexplicable Story (B)
  • Two Murders in my Double Life (B)
• SLAVNIKOVA, Olga (Russia): 2017 (B)
• SMILEVSKI, Goce (Macedonia):
  • Conversation with Spinoza (A-)
  • Freud's Sister (B)
• SOROKIN, Vladimir (Russia):
  • Day of the Oprichnik (B-)
  • Ice (B+)
• STAROVA, Luan (Macedonia): Les livres de mon père (B+)
• STASIUK, Andrzej (Poland):
  • Fado (B+)
  • Nine (B)
• ŠTIKS, Igor (Croatia): A Castle in Romagna (B+)
• STRUGATSKY, Arkady and Boris (USSR): Roadside Picnic (A-)
• SUCEAVĂ, Bogdan (Romania): Coming from an Off-Key Time (B)
• [SZATHMÁRI Sándor (Hungary): Voyage to Kazohinia]
• SZÉCSI Noémi (Hungary): The Finno-Ugrian Vampire (B)
• SZÉKELY János (Hungary): Temptation (B+)
• SZENTKUTHY Miklós (Hungary): Marginalia on Casanova (A-)
• SZERB Antal (Hungary):
  • Journey by Moonlight (B+)
  • Oliver VII (B+)
  • The Pendragon Legend (A-)
• TEODOROVICI, Lucian Dan (Romania): Our Circus Presents ... (B-)
• TODOROV, Vladislav (Bulgaria): Zift (B)
• TSEPENEAG, Dumitru (Romania):
  • Hotel Europa (B)
  • Pigeon Post (B)
  • Vain Art of the Fugue (B)
• TULLI, Magdalena (Poland): Dreams and Stones (B)
• UGRESIC, Dubravka (former Yugoslavia):
  • See the complete review's Dubravka Ugresic page
  • Baba Yaga Laid an Egg (B+)
  • Fording the Stream of Consciousness (B)
  • In the Jaws of Life (B)
  • Karaoke Culture (B+)
  • The Ministry of Pain (B+)
  • The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (B+)
  • Nobody's Home (B+)
  • Thank You for Not Reading (B+)
• ULITSKAYA, Ludmila (Russia): Daniel Stein, Interpreter (B-)
• UNT, Mati (Estonia):
  • Brecht at Night (B+)
  • Diary of a Blood Donor (B)
  • Things in the Night (B)
• URBAN, Miloš (Czech Republic): The Seven Churches (B)
• URSU, Liliana (Romania): Angel Riding a Beast (B)
• VAGINOV, Konstantin (USSR): The Works and Days of Svistonov (B)
• VELIČKOVIĆ, Nenad (former Yugoslavia): Lodgers (B+)
• VIEWEGH, Michal (Czech Republic): Případ nevěrné Kláry (B)
• VINT, Toomas (Estonia): An Unending Landscape (B)
• VOINOVICH, Vladimir (USSR): Monumental Propaganda (B+)
• VORPSI, Ornela (Albania): The Country Where No One Ever Dies (B)
• WAGENSTEIN, Angel (Bulgaria): Farewell, Shanghai (B+)
• WAT, Aleksander (Poland):
  • Mediterranean Poems (A-)
  • My Century (B)
• WITKIEWICZ, Stanislaw Ignacy (Poland): Insatiability (B+)
• WOLF, Christa (East Germany): In The Flesh (A-)
• ŽABOT, Vlado (Slovenia): The Succubus (B)
• ZABUZHKO, Oksana (Ukraine): Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex (B)
• ZAGAJEWSKI, Adam (Poland):
  • Another Beauty (B+)
  • Canvas (B+)
• ZAREV, Vladimir (Bulgaria): Разруха (B)
• ZILAHY Péter (Hungary): The Last Window-Giraffe (B+)
• ŽIVKOVIĆ, Zoran (Serbia):
  • The Fourth Circle (B+)
  • Hidden Camera (B)
  • Steps Through the Mist (B+)
• ZSOLT, Béla (Hungary): Nine Suitcases (A)

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