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A

Adamek, Marcel-André - The Ark
Adameşteanu, Gabriela - The Hour Commute
Aidt, Naja Marie - Bulbjerg
Agema, Su'eddie Vershima - Awaiting
Agopian, Ştefan - The Art of War
Agualusa, José Eduardo - Rainy Season
Aira, César - The Literary Conference
Aïtmatov, Chingiz - Jamilia
Alegría, Claribel - Paradise
Allain, Marcel & Souvestre, Pierre - Fantômas
Antunes, Antonio Lobo - Fado Alexandrino
Appelfeld, Aharaon - Badenheim 1939
Arsenijević, Vladimir - One Minute: Dumbo's Death
Astley, Thea - The Well Dressed Explorer
Attah, Ayesha Harruna - Tamale Blues
Atwood, Margaret - The Blind Assassin
Aurelius, Marcus - Meditations

B

Balzac, Honoré de - Colonel Chabert
Bán, Zsófia - When There Were Only Animals
Barbal, Maria - Stone in a Landslide
Baricco, Alessandro - Silk
Barnes, Julian - Arthur & George
Barry, John Arthur - Far Inland Football
Barry, Kevin - Doctor Sot
Barth, John - Coming Soon!!!
Basara, Svetislav - The Cyclist Conspiracy
Bausch, Richard - Peace
Baynton, Barbara - Squeaker's Mate
Bernard, Christopher - A Spy in the Ruins
Bernhard, Thomas:
---Frost
---Is it a Comedy? Is it a Tragedy?
Bettencourt, Lúcia - Borges's Secretary
Bican, Florin - Penguins
Bittel, Adriana - Names
Bizzio, Sergio - Magic!
Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne:
---Absalom's Hair
---A Happy Boy
Blandiana, Ana - The Open Window
Blatnik, Andrej:
---Too Close Together
---You Do Understand
Bolaño, Roberto:
---Last Evenings on Earth
---The Savage Detectives
Böll, Heinrich - The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Boon, Louis Paul - My Little War
Borges, Jorge Luis:
---The Book of Sand
---The Total Library - Non-Fiction 1922 - 1986
Bragi, Steinar - The Sky Over Thingvellir
Brau, Edgar - The Key
Brycz, Pavel - I, City

C

Calvino, Italo:
---Adam, One Afternoon
---If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Camenisch, Arno - Sez Ner
Camus, Albert - The Plague
Candida, Marco - Dream Diary
Cărtărescu, Mircea - Clockwork Animals
Chabon, Michael - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Châteaureynaud, Georges-Olivier:
---January 1973 - April 1974 (Paris): The Peacocks
---1980 (Bures): The Gulf of the Years
---December 1981 - February 1982 (Bures): A Room on the Abyss
---February 1983 (Bures): A City of Museums
---May 1986 (Lozère): Come Out, Come Out
---April 1988 (Lozère): Delaunay the Broker
---October 1988 (Lozère): Unlivable
---December 1988 (Lozère): The Pest
---March 1989 (Lozère): A Life on Paper
---December 1990 (Lozère): The Pavilion and the Linden
---February 1991 (Lozère): Icarus Saved From the Skies
---February 1992 (Lozère): La Tête
---October 1992 (Lozère): The Dolceola Player
---December 1992 (Lozère): The Only Mortal
---April 1993 (Lozère): The Styx
---September 1999 (Palaiseau): The Excursion
Chesterton, G. K. - The Crimes of England
Ciocan, Iulian - Auntie Frosea
Cixous, Hélène - Zero's Neighbour: Sam Beckett
Clarke, Marcus - Pretty Dick
Crane, Stephen - Maggie, a Girl of the Streets
Cristofovici, Anca - Stela's Return

D

Damoah, Nana Awere - Truth Floats
Daudet, Alphonse:
---Artists' Wives
---Tartarin de Tarascon
Davydov, Danila - The Telescope
Delaney, Juan José - The Two Coins
DeLillo, Don:
---The Body Artist
---White Noise
Delius, Friedrich Christian - Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman
Dephy, David:
---Before the End
---The Chair
Dhuibhne, Éilís Ní - Trespasses
Dimitrijević, Dejana - The Cover
Dimovska, Milica Mićić - Boutique Cinderella
Doctorow, E. L. - World's Fair
Dolores, Carmen:
---See Goldberg, Isaac - Brazilian Tales
Dowlatabadi, Mahmoud - The Colonel
Drysdale, Helena - Ana, Camil, Niculina, and Me

E

Eco, Umberto:
---Baudolino
---The Name of the Rose
Eichner, Hans - Kahn & Engelmann
Eiríksdóttir, Kristín - Holes in People
Elíasson, Gyrðir - House No. 451
Eliot, George - Silas Marner
Elnathan, John - Your Man
Epstein, Joseph:
---Friendship: An Exposé
---Narcissus Leaves the Pool
Esposito, Scott:
---See: Hathcock, Barrett and Esposito, Scott - Lady Chatterley's Brother
Esterházy, Péter:
---Kornél Esti’s Bicycle Or: The Structure Of The World
---She Loves Me

F

Ferić, Zoran - Make a Doctor Run
Fernández Paz, Agustín - This Strange Lucidity
Ficowski, Jerzy - Waiting for the Dog to Sleep
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
Fortune, Mary - The Dead Witness; or, the Bush Waterhole
Fosse, Jon - Aliss at the Fire
France, Anatole:
---The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
---The Aspirations of Jean Servien
Franzen, Jonathan:
---Freedom
---Strong Motion
Freese, Mathias B - Down to a Sunless Sea
Fuentes, Carlos:
---Christopher Unborn
---The Death of Artemio Cruz
Fugard, Athol, Kani, John and Ntshona, Winston - Statements

G

Gál, Róbert:
---Agnomia
---Signs and Symptoms
Galdós, Benito Pérez - Dona Perfecta
Gay, Rafael Pérez - The Way to Juarez
Gelasimov, Andrei - The Evil Eye
Gersão, Teolinda - Four Children, Two Dogs and Some Birds
Giardinelli, Mempo - God's Punishment
Gide, André - The Fruits of the Earth
Giordano, Paolo - The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Goldberg, Isaac - Brazilian Tales
Goldsworthy, Peter - Maestro
Goncharov, Ivan - Oblomov
Gospodinov, Georgi - And All Turned Moon
Goto, Meisei - Shot by Both Sides
Grass, Günter - Crabwalk
Grunberg, Arnon - The Jewish Messiah
Grytten, Frode - Hotel by a Railroad

H

Hackl, Erich - The Wedding in Auschwitz
Halévy, Ludovic - Parisian Points of View
Halfon, Eduardo - Good Women and Bad Women
Hamsun, Knut:
---Growth of the Soil
---Hunger
---Pan
---The Ring is Closed
---Victoria
---See Also - "The Nobel Prize Winning Nazi", posted to the South Wing website.
Handke, Peter - A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
Hašek, Jaroslav - The Good Soldier Švejk
Hartmann, Ivor W. - Lost Love
Hartnett, Sonya:
---Any Dog
---Of A Boy
Hathcock, Barrett and Esposito, Scott - Lady Chatterley's Brother
Hauff, Wilhelm - The Wine-Ghosts of Bremen
Háy, János - Lou's Last Letter to Feri's Wife
Heine, Heinrich - The Harz Journey and Selected Prose
Heinsaar, Mehis - Butterfly Man
Hemingway, Ernest - The Old Man and the Sea
Herrera, Yuri - The Heart's Secret Moves
Hesse, Hermann:
---Knulp
---Rosshalde
---Wandering
Heyse, Paul - Andrea Delfin
Hochel, Braňo - My Best Story
Hogan, Desmond - Kennedy
Hospital, Janette Turner - Hurricane Season
Houellebecq, Michel - Whatever
Hrabal, Bohumil - Too Loud a Solitude
Hrgović, Maja - Zlatka
Huelle, Paweł - Castorp
Huxley, Aldous - Eyeless in Gaza

I

Ibarz, Mercé - Nela and the Virgins
Ifedigbo, Sylva Nze:
---Death on Gimbiya Street
Ifedigbo, Sylva Nze - The Hundredth Friend
---The Lunch on Good Friday
---Ninety Minutes
Ikstena, Nora - Elza Kuga's Old-Age Dementia
Iwasaki, Fernando - To Troy, Helen

J

James, Henry - Washington Square
Jančar, Drago - The Prophecy
Jerome, Jerome K - Three Men in a Boat
Johanides, Ján - Berlin in the Afternoon, at a Quarter to Winter
Jókai, Mór:
---A Christian But a Roman
---See Also Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian
Joyce, James - Dubliners
Juráňová, Jana - Clips

K

Kadare, Ismail - The General of the Dead Army
Kafka, Franz - The Trial
Kakuta, Mitsuyo - The Eighth Day
Kalinauskaitė, Danutė - Just Things
Kapuściński, Ryszard - The Soccer War
Karvaš, Peter - Xerox of a Document about One Half of (the Art of) Life
Keneally, Thomas - A Commonwealth of Thieves
Kertész, Imre - Detective Story
Khadra, Yasmina:
---Dead Man's Share
---What the Day Owes the Night
Khoury, Elias:
---City Gates
---Little Mountain
Kielland, Alexander:
---Skipper Worse
---Tales of Two Countries
---See Also - "Kielland", posted to the South Wing website.
Kierkegaard, Søren - Fear and Trembling
Klimáček, Viliam - Cosmonauts' Square • Generation Ю
Kompaníková, Monika - Slávko
Konrád, György - Jeremiah's Terrible Tale
Konwicki, Tadeusz - The Polish Complex
Kõomägi, Armin - Logisticians Anonymous
Kornis, Mihály - The Toad Prince
Kosztolányi, Dezső - The Last Reading
Kovalyk, Uršuľa - Mrs. Agnes's Bathroom
Krasznahorkai, László - The Bill
Kratochvil, Jiří - I, Loshaď
Kundera, Milan:
---Farewell Waltz
---Identity
---Immortality
---Laughable Loves
Kurahasi, Yumiko - Apollo's Head

L

Lagerkvist, Par - The Dwarf
Lang, John George - The Ghost Upon the Rail
Laxness, Halldór - The Atom Station
Lázár, Ervin - The China Doll
Lazarescu, Florin - The Lamp with the Cap
Ledgard, J. M. - Giraffe
Lee, Hermione - Edith Wharton
Le, Nam - The Boat
Lemonnier, Camille:
---See Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian
Lermontov, Mikhail - A Hero of Our Time
Levi, Primo - The Periodic Table
Lie, Jonas - Weird Tales from Northern Seas
Lungu, Dan:
---Mr. Escu's Adventure
---To the Cemetery

M

Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria:
---See Goldberg, Isaac - Brazilian Tales
Mándy, Iván - Furniture
Marhun, Mahmud - Embraced by the Grave
McCarthy, Cormac - Blood Meridian
McDonald, Roger - Mr Darwin's Shooter
McGahan, Andrew - Praise
McEwan, Ian - Amsterdam
Maeterlinck, Maurice:
---See Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian
Mahfouz, Naguib:
---Adrift on the Nile
---Before the Throne
---The Thief and the Dogs
---The Time and the Place
Malouf, David - Child's Play
Manotti, Dominique - Affairs of State
Mantel, Hilary - The Heart Fails Without Warning
Maraini, Dacia - Train to Budapest
de Martelaere, Patricia - My Hand is Exhausted
Martínez, Guillermo - The “I Ching” and the Man of Papers
Maxwell, William - The Folded Leaf
Maupassant, Guy de:
---Bel-Ami
---Pierre and Jean
Mauriac, François - The Desert of Love
Medeiros e Albuquerque, José de:
---See Goldberg, Isaac - Brazilian Tales
Mikszáth, Kálmán - Heathen Master Filcsik
Millás, Juan José - R. J.'s Tiny Corpse
Miller, Alex:
---Lovesong
---The Sitters
Minevski, Blaže - Academician Sisoye's Inaugural Speech
Ming, Wu - 54
Mishima, Yukio - The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
Miyabe, Miyuki:
---The Devil's Whisper
---The Sleeping Dragon
Mlalazi, Christopher - A Cicada in the Shimmer
Montaigne, Michel de - The Complete Essays
Montalbetti, Christine - Hotel Komaba Eminence (With Haruki Murakami)
Morroco-Clarke, Ayodele - The Nestbury Tree
Moya, Horacio Castellanos:
---Senselessness
---Dance With Snakes
Mozzi, Guilio - Carlo Doesn't Know How to Read
Mrożek, Sławomir - Ketchup
Mueller, Janel and Lowenstein, David - The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature
Mulisch, Harry:
---The Discovery of Heaven
---Siegfried
Murnane, Gerald - Tamarisk Row
Musodza, Masimba - Yesterday's Dog

N

Nabokov, Vladimir - Pale Fire
Nádas, Péter - Love
Netto, Coehlo:
---See Goldberg, Isaac - Brazilian Tales
Nikolaidis, Andrej - So Much Time For So Few Things
Nooteboom, Cees:
---All Souls' Day
---In the Dutch Mountains
---The Following Story
Novaković, Mirjana - Fear and Servant
Nwokolo, Jr., Chuma - Quarterback & Co.

O

Odegov, Ilya - Old Fazyl's Advice
Ognjenović, Vida - Adulterers
Okoli-Okpagu, Ifesinachi - Ugobenna
Olmi, Véronique - Beside the Sea
Ondjaki - Good Morning Comrades
Ormsby, Mike:
---Democracy
---Mother Tongue
Ozick, Cynthia:
---The Din in the Head
---What Henry James Knew

P

Paiva, Fernando - God's Obituary
Parti Nagy, Lajos - Oh, Those Chubby Genes
Peake, Mervyn - Titus Groan
Pérez-Reverte, Arturo - The Fencing Master
Pérez Reyes, José - In Hock
Petrescu, Răzvan - Wedding Photos
Petterson, Per - In the Wake
Politycki, Matthias - Next World Novella
Powers, Richard:
---The Echo Maker
---The Gold Bug Variations
---The Time of Our Singing
Pradelli, Ángela - The Bather
Prichard, Katharine Susannah - The Curse
Proust, Marcel:
---In Search of Lost Time I - The Way by Swann's
---In Search of Lost Time II - In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
Pyamootoo, Barlen - Center of Flacq
Pynchon, Thomas:
---Against the Day
---Gravity's Rainbow

Q

Queneau, Raymond - The Flight of Icarus
Quiriny, Bernard - A Guide to Famous Stabbings

R

Raabe, Wilhelm - German Moonlight
Rankov, Pavol - The Period in Which We Live
Rey Rosa, Rodrigo - Poco-loco
Robbe-Grillet, Alain - The Erasers
Roberts, Wiliam Owen - The Professionals
Rolland, Romain:
---Clerambault
---Jean-Christophe Volume I: Dawn
---Jean-Christophe Volume II: Morning
---Jean-Christophe Volume III: Youth
---Pierre and Luce
---See Also - "The Flow of Music", posted to the South Wing website.
Rosenstock, Gabriel - “...everything emptying into white”
Ross, James Bruce and McLaughlin, Mary Martin - The Portable Medieval Reader
Roth, Joseph - Confession of a Murderer
Roth, Philip:
---The Dying Animal
---Exit Ghost
---Goodbye, Columbus
---The Humbling
---Indignation
---My Life as a Man
---Novels, 1973-1977 (Library of America)
---Zuckerman Bound
Rudnicki, Janusz - The Sorrows of Idiot Augustus
Ruşti, Doina - Bill Clinton's Hand

S

Saadawi, Nawal El - She Has No Place in Paradise
Saramago, José:
---Death With Interruptions
---Seeing
Sartre, Jean-Paul - Nausea
Schami, Rafik - The Calligrapher's Secret
Schertenleib, Hansjörg - A Happy Man
Schewblin, Samanta - Preserves
Schiff, Agur - There's Lots to See
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang - Three New Deals
Schlink, Bernhard - Self's Deception
Schnitzler, Arthur:
---Bertha Garlan
---Casanova's Homecoming
Schulz, Bruno - The Street of Crocodiles
Schulze, Ingo - Oranges and Angel
Scullard, H. H. - From the Gracchi to Nero
Selenić, Slobodan - Premeditated Murder
Selmi, Habib - The Scents of Marie-Claire
Shua, Ana María - Octavio the Invader
Sienkiewicz, Henryk:
---Sielanka
---So Runs the World
---See also Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian
---See Also - "A Polish Historical Master", posted to the South Wing website.
Sigauke, Emmanuel - A Return to the Moonlight
Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
Simenon, Georges:
---The Little Man From Archangel
---Maigret's Memoirs
Simić, Mima - Boys Don't Cry
Šimko, Dušan - Excursion to Dubrovnik
Simon, Claude - The Invitation
Sjöwall, Maj and Wahlöö, Per - The Man on the Balcony
Smilevski, Goce - Conversation With Spinoza
Smith, Zadie - The Autograph Man
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr - The Oak and The Calf
Souvestre, Pierre & Allain, Marcel - Fantômas
Somoza, Jose Carlos - Zig Zag
Spahić, Ognjen - Raymond is No Longer with Us – Carver is Dead
Sprenger, Stefan - Dust
Staalesen, Gunnar - The Consorts of Death
Stanković, Slavoljub – The Box
Stead, Christina - Street Idyll
Stefan, Verena - Doe a Deer
Steinbeck, John:
---In Dubious Battle
---The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
---To a God Unknown
---Tortilla Flat
Štiks, Igor:
---A Castle in Romagna
---At the Sarajevo Market
Stivens, Dal - A Horse of Air
Suceavă, Bogdan:
---Can You Hear the Shape of a Drum?
---Coming From an Off-Key Time
---Daddy Wants TV Saturday Night
---Our Years of Beauty
---See Also: The Bogdan Suceavă Interview at the Quarterly Conversation
Sue, Eugène - The Infant's Skull; or, The End of the World - A Tale of the Millennium
Syjuco, Miguel - Ilustrado
Szerb, Antal - The Queen's Necklace
Szewc, Piotr - Annihilation

T

Tabucchi, Antonio - Indian Nocturne
Takagi, Akimitsu - Honeymoon to Nowhere
Tanase, Stelian - Zgaiba
Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō - Some Prefer Nettles
Tar, Sándor - Slow Freight
Tapureta, Beaven - Cost of Courage
Tavares, Gonçalo M. - Six Tales
Teodorovici, Lucian Dan:
Chewing Gum
Goose Chase
Tokarczuk, Olga:
---The Bean Prophecies
---The Ugliest Woman in the World
Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina
Tóth, Krisztina - The Pigeon
Toussaint, Jean-Phillipe:
---The Bathroom
---Zidane's Melancholy
Tshuma, Novuyo Rosa - Big Pieces, Little Pieces
Tsiolkas, Christos - The Jesus Man
Tubosun, Kola - Behind the Door
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons

U

Üldes, Ersan - Professional Behaviour
Updike, John:
---The Afterlife and Other Stories
---The Complete Henry Bech
---Couples
---Hugging the Shore
---Rabbit, Run
---Toward the End of Time
---See Also - "Rabbit in Retrospect", posted to the South Wing website.
Uphoff, Manon - Desire
Ušumović, Neven - Vereš

V

Valjarević, Srdjan - Lake Como
Vann, David - Caribou Island
Vargas Llosa, Mario:
---Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
---Death in the Andes
---The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto
---The Storyteller
Viiding, Elo - Foreign Women
Vikelas, Demetrios:
---See Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian
Vila-Matas, Enrique - Far From Here
Villoro, Juan - Holding Pattern
Vilikovský, Pavel - Ever Green Is...
Vorpsi, Ornela - The Country Where No One Ever Dies

W

Wahlöö, Per - See Sjöwall, Maj and Wahlöö, Per
Warlick, Ashley - Seek the Living
Wästberg, Per - The Journey of Anders Sparrman
Waugh, Evelyn - The Loved One
Wiese, Jan - The Naked Madonna
Wiesel, Elie - Night
Wilson, Edmund - Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s and 30s
Winton, Tim:
--- - Breath
--- - Neighbours
Wood, James - How Fiction Works

X

Xerxenesky, Antônio - Seizing Cervantes

Y

Yaxley, Richard - The Rose Leopard
Yehoshua, A. B. - Friendly Fire

Z

Zable, Arnold - Sea of Many Returns
Zink, Rui - Tourist Destination
Živković, Zoran - Time Gifts
Zola, Émile,:
---The Flood
---Thérèse Raquin
Zweig, Stefan - Beware of Pity

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