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Eastern European Literature
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| Eastern European offerings at the complete review span from the Czech Republic through the former Soviet Union, encompassing all the former Soviet satellite states in Europe. |
- Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood (B+) - Modern Albanian Short Stories, ed. Robert Elsie
- ALBAHARI, David (Serbia):
- Bait (A-)
- Götz and Meyer (A-)
- [Pijavice]
- [Snow Man]
- Tsing (B+)
- Words are something else (A-)
- ANDRUKHOVYCH, Yuri (Ukraine):
- Дванадцять обручів (B)
- Московіада (B+)
- Perverzion (B+)
- Recreations (B)
- BARTOL, Vladimir (Slovenia): Alamut (B+)
- BAZDULJ, Muharem (Bosnia): The Second Book (B+)
- BIEŃCZYK, Marek (Poland): Tworki (B+)
- BITOV, Andrei (USSR): Pushkin House (B+)
- BLECHER, M. (Romania):
- BRAUN, Volker (East Germany):
- BUIDA, Yuri (Russia): The Zero Train (B)
- CELAN, Paul (Romania): Romanian Poems (B+)
- DALOS György (Hungary): The Circumcision (B)
- DERESCH, Ljubko (Ukraine):
- Культ (B)
- Поклоніння ящірці (B)
- DOMBROVSKY, Yury (USSR):
- EROFEYEV, Victor (USSR): Хороший Сталин (A-)
- ESTERHÁZY Péter (Hungary): Utazás a tizenhatos mélyére (B+)
- FERIĆ, Zoran (former Yugoslavia): The Death of the Little Match Girl (B+)
- GALLEGO, Ruben (USSR): White on Black (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)
- 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)
- HUELLE, Paweł (Poland): Mercedes-Benz (B+)
- IKONNIKOV, Alexander (Russia): Lizka and her Men (B)
- ILF and PETROV (Soviet Union): The Twelve Chairs (A-)
- JANCAR, Drago (Slovenia):
- Mocking Desire (B)
- Northern Lights (B+)
- KADARE, Ismail (Albania): The Successor (A-)
- KERTÉSZ Imre (Hungary):
- See the complete review's Kertész Imre page.
- Detective Story (B+)
- Fatelessness (B+)
- K. dosszié (A-)
- Kaddish for an Unborn Child (A)
- A kudarc (A-)
- Liquidation (A-)
- The Pathseeker (B+)
- Valaki más (A-)
- KIŠ, Danilo (Yugoslavia):
- Garden, Ashes (B+)
- Mansarda (B)
- A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (B+)
- KLÍMA, Ladislav (Czech): The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch (B+)
- KONGOLI, Fatos (Albania): The Loser (A-)
- KOSZTOLÁNYI, Dezső (Hungary):
- Anna Édes (B+)
- Esti Kornél (A-)
- KRLEŽA, Miroslav (Croatia): The Banquet in Blitva (B+)
- KRZHIZHANOVSKY, Sigizmund (Soviet Union): Seven Stories (A-)
- KUNDERA, Milan (Czechoslovakia):
- The Curtain (B+)
- Identity (B)
- See also: François Ricard's Agnès's Final Afternoon
- KURKOV, Andrey (Ukraine):
- LEM, Stanislaw (Poland): A Stanislaw Lem Reader (Ed.: Peter Swirski) (B-)
- LIBERA, Antoni (Poland): Madame (B)
- LLESHANAKU, Luljeta (Albania): Fresco (B)
- MÁRAI Sándor (Hungary):
- Casanova in Bolzano (UK title: Conversations in Bolzano) (B)
- Embers (B+)
- Napló 1984-1989 (A-)
- The Rebels (B)
- MARIENGOF, Anatoly (USSR):
- Cynics (B+)
- A Novel Without Lies (B+)
- MAZZINI, Miha (Slovenia): The Cartier Project (B)
- MERAS, Icchokas (Lithuania): Stalemate (B+)
- MICKEL, Karl (East Germany): Einstein (A-)
- 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+)
- NAUM, Gellu (Romania):
- My Tired Father (B-)
- Zenobia (B)
- OLESHA, Yuri (USSR): Envy (B)
- ÖRKÉNY, István (Hungary): One Minute Stories (B+)
- OUŘEDNÍK, Patrik (Czechoslovakia): Europeana (A-)
- PASTIOR, Oskar (Romania): o du roher iasmin (-)
- PEKIĆ, Borislav (Yugoslavia): How to Quiet a Vampire (A-)
- PELEVIN, Victor (Russia): The Helmet of Horror (B-)
- PILCH, Jerzy (Poland): His Current Woman (B+)
- PIŠT'ANEK, Peter (Slovakia): Rivers of Babylon (A-)
- SELIMOVIC, Mesa (Yugoslavia):
- Death and the Dervish (A)
- The Fortress (B+)
- SHKLOVSKY, Viktor (USSR):
- Knight's Move (B)
- Third Factory (B+)
- SKVORECKY, Josef (Czechoslovakia):
- SMILEVSKI, Goce (Macedonia): Conversation with Spinoza (A-)
- SOROKIN, Vladimir (Russia): Ice (B+)
- STAROVA, Luan (Macedonia): Les livres de mon père (B+)
- STASIUK, Andrzej (Poland): Nine (B)
- ŠTIKS, Igor (Croatia): A Castle in Romagna (B+)
- SZÉKELY János (Hungary): Temptation (B+)
- SZERB Antal (Hungary):
- Journey by Moonlight (B+)
- Oliver VII (B+)
- The Pendragon Legend (A-)
- TSEPENEAG, Dumitru (Romania):
- Hotel Europa (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
- Fording the Stream of Consciousness (B)
- In the Jaws of Life (B)
- The Ministry of Pain (B+)
- The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (B+)
- Nobody's Home (B+)
- Thank You for Not Reading (B+)
- UNT, Mati (Estonia): Things in the Night (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+)
- VOINOVICH, Vladimir (USSR): Monumental Propaganda (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-)
- ZAGAJEWSKI, Adam (Poland):
- Another Beauty (B+)
- Canvas (B+)
- ZILAHY Péter (Hungary): The Last Window-Giraffe (B+)
- ŽIVKOVIĆ, Zoran (Serbia):
- The Fourth Circle (B+)
- Hidden Camera (B)
- ZSOLT, Béla (Hungary): Nine Suitcases (A)
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