Reviews by Nationality

Bettencourt, Lúcia - Borges's Secretary
Dolores, Carmen:
---See Goldberg, Isaac - Brazilian Tales
Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria:
---See Goldberg, Isaac - Brazilian Tales
Medeiros e Albuquerque, José de:
---See Goldberg, Isaac - Brazilian Tales
Netto, Coehlo:
---See Goldberg, Isaac - Brazilian Tales
Paiva, Fernando - God's Obituary
Xerxenesky, Antônio - Seizing Cervantes

Canadian

Atwood, Margaret - The Blind Assassin

Chilean

Bolaño, Roberto:
---Last Evenings on Earth
---The Savage Detectives

Guatemalan

Halfon, Eduardo - Good Women and Bad Women
Rey Rosa, Rodrigo - Poco-loco

Mexican

Fuentes, Carlos:
---Christopher Unborn
---The Death of Artemio Cruz
Gay, Rafael Pérez - The Way to Juarez
Herrera, Yuri - The Heart's Secret Moves
Villoro, Juan - Holding Pattern

Nicaraguan

Alegría, Claribel - Paradise

Paraguayan

Pérez Reyes, José - In Hock

Peruvian

Iwasaki, Fernando - To Troy, Helen
Vargas Llosa, Mario:
---Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
---Death in the Andes
---The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto
---The Storyteller

Salvadoran

Moya, Horacio Castellanos:
---Senselessness
---Dance With Snakes

Asia

---Afghan
---Filipino
---Iranian
---Israeli
---Japanese
---Kazakhstan
---Kyrgyz
---Lebanese
---Syrian

Afghan

Marhun, Mahmud - Embraced by the Grave

Filipino

Syjuco, Miguel - Ilustrado

Iranian

Dowlatabadi, Mahmoud - The Colonel

Israeli

Appelfeld, Aharon - Badenheim 1939
Schiff, Agur - There's Lots to See
Yehoshua, A. B. - Friendly Fire

Japanese

Goto, Meisei - Shot by Both Sides
Kakuta, Mitsuyo - The Eighth Day
Kurahasi, Yumiko - Apollo's Head
Mishima, Yukio - The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
Miyabe, Miyuki:
---The Devil's Whisper
---The Sleeping Dragon
Takagi, Akimitsu - Honeymoon to Nowhere
Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō - Some Prefer Nettles

Kazakhstan

Odegov, Ilya - Old Fazyl's Advice

Kyrgyz

Aïtmatov, Chingiz - Jamilia

Lebanese

Khoury, Elias:
---City Gates
---Little Mountain

Syrian

Schami, Rafik - The Calligrapher's Secret

Europe

---Albanian
---Austrian
---Belgian
---Bosnian
---British
---Bulgarian
---Croatian
---Czech
---Danish
---Estonian
---Dutch
---French
---Georgian
---German
---Greek
---Hungarian
---Icelandic
---Irish
---Italian
---Latvian
---Lichtenstein
---Lithuanian

---Macedonian
---Moldovan
---Montenegrin
---Norwegian
---Polish
---Portuguese
---Roman
---Romanian
---Russian
---Scottish
---Serbian
---Slovak
---Slovenian
---Spanish
---Swedish
---Swiss
---Turkish
---Welsh

Albanian

Kadare, Ismail - The General of the Dead Army
Vorpsi, Ornela - The Country Where No One Ever Dies

Austrian

Bernhard, Thomas:
---Frost
---Is it a Comedy? Is it a Tragedy?
Eichner, Hans - Kahn & Engelmann
Hackl, Erich - The Wedding in Auschwitz
Roth, Joseph - Confession of a Murderer
Schnitzler, Arthur:
---Bertha Garlan
---Casanova's Homecoming
Zweig, Stefan - Beware of Pity

Belgian

Adamek, Marcel-André - The Ark
Boon, Louis Paul - My Little War
Lemonnier, Camille:
---See Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian
Maeterlinck, Maurice:
---See Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian
de Martelaere, Patricia - My Hand is Exhausted
Quiriny, Bernard - A Guide to Famous Stabbings
Simenon, Georges:
---The Little Man From Archangel
---Maigret's Memoirs
Toussaint, Jean-Phillipe:
---The Bathroom
---Zidane's Melancholy

Bosnian

Štiks, Igor:
---A Castle in Romagna
---At the Sarajevo Market

British

Barnes, Julian - Arthur & George
Chesterton, G. K. - The Crimes of England
Drysdale, Helena - Ana, Camil, Niculina, and Me
Eliot, George - Silas Marner
Huxley, Aldous - Eyeless in Gaza
Jerome, Jerome K - Three Men in a Boat
Lee, Hermione - Edith Wharton
Mantel, Hilary - The Heart Fails Without Warning
McEwan, Ian - Amsterdam
Ormsby, Mike:
---Democracy
---Mother Tongue
Peake, Mervyn - Titus Groan
Scullard, H. H. - From the Gracchi to Nero
Smith, Zadie - The Autograph Man
Waugh, Evelyn - The Loved One

Bulgarian

Gospodinov, Georgi - And All Turned Moon

Croatian

Ferić, Zoran - Make a Doctor Run
Hrgović, Maja - Zlatka
Selenić, Slobodan - Premeditated Murder
Simić, Mima - Boys Don't Cry
Ušumović, Neven - Vereš

Czech

Brycz, Pavel - I, City
Hašek, Jaroslav - The Good Soldier Švejk
Hrabal, Bohumil - Too Loud a Solitude
Kratochvil, Jiří - I, Loshaď
Kundera, Milan:
---Farewell Waltz
---Identity
---Immortality
---Laughable Loves

Danish

Aidt, Naja Marie - Bulbjerg
Kierkegaard, Søren - Fear and Trembling

Dutch

Grunberg, Arnon - The Jewish Messiah
Mulisch, Harry:
---The Discovery of Heaven
---Siegfried
Nooteboom, Cees:
---All Souls' Day
---In the Dutch Mountains
---The Following Story
Uphoff, Manon - Desire

Estonian

Heinsaar, Mehis - Butterfly Man
Kõomägi, Armin - Logisticians Anonymous
Viiding, Elo - Foreign Women

French

Allain, Marcel & Souvestre, Pierre - Fantômas
Balzac, Honoré de - Colonel Chabert
Camus, Albert - The Plague
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
Cixous, Hélène - Zero's Neighbour: Sam Beckett
Daudet, Alphonse:
---Artists' Wives
---Tartarin de Tarascon
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
France, Anatole:
---The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
---The Aspirations of Jean Servien
Gide, André - The Fruits of the Earth
Halévy, Ludovic - Parisian Points of View
Houellebecq, Michel - Whatever
Manotti, Dominique - Affairs of State
Maupassant, Guy de:
---Bel-Ami
---Pierre and Jean
Mauriac, François - The Desert of Love
Montaigne, Michel de - The Complete Essays
Montalbetti, Christine - Hotel Komaba Eminence (With Haruki Murakami)
Olmi, Véronique - Beside the Sea
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
Queneau, Raymond - The Flight of Icarus
Robbe-Grillet, Alain - The Erasers
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.
Sartre, Jean-Paul - Nausea
Simon, Claude - The Invitation
Sue, Eugène - The Infant's Skull; or, The End of the World - A Tale of the Millennium
Zola, Émile,:
---The Flood
---Thérèse Raquin

Georgian

Dephy, David:
---Before the End
---The Chair

German

Böll, Heinrich - The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Delius, Friedrich Christian - Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman
Grass, Günter - Crabwalk
Handke, Peter - A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
Hauff, Wilhelm - The Wine-Ghosts of Bremen
Heine, Heinrich - The Harz Journey and Selected Prose
Hesse, Hermann:
---Knulp
---Rosshalde
---Wandering
Heyse, Paul - Andrea Delfin
Kafka, Franz - The Trial
Politycki, Matthias - Next World Novella
Raabe, Wilhelm - German Moonlight
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang - Three New Deals
Schlink, Bernhard - Self's Deception
Schulze, Ingo - Oranges and Angel

Greek

Vikelas, Demetrios:
---See Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian

Hungarian

Bán, Zsófia - When There Were Only Animals
Esterházy, Péter:
---Kornél Esti’s Bicycle Or: The Structure Of The World
---She Loves Me
Jókai, Mór:
---A Christian But a Roman
---See Also Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian
Háy, János - Lou's Last Letter to Feri's Wife
Kertész, Imre - Detective Story
Konrád, György - Jeremiah's Terrible Tale
Kornis, Mihály - The Toad Prince
Kosztolányi, Dezső - The Last Reading
Krasznahorkai, László - The Bill
Lázár, Ervin - The China Doll
Mándy, Iván - Furniture
Mikszáth, Kálmán - Heathen Master Filcsik
Nádas, Péter - Love
Parti Nagy, Lajos - Oh, Those Chubby Genes
Szerb, Antal - The Queen's Necklace
Tar, Sándor - Slow Freight
Tóth, Krisztina - The Pigeon

Icelandic

Bragi, Steinar - The Sky Over Thingvellir
Eiríksdóttir, Kristín - Holes in People
Elíasson, Gyrðir - House No. 451
Laxness, Halldór - The Atom Station

Irish

Barry, Kevin - Doctor Sot
Dhuibhne, Éilís Ní - Trespasses
Hogan, Desmond - Kennedy
Joyce, James - Dubliners
Rosenstock, Gabriel - “...everything emptying into white”

Italian

Baricco, Alessandro - Silk
Calvino, Italo:
---Adam, One Afternoon
---If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Candida, Marco - Dream Diary
Eco, Umberto:
---Baudolino
---The Name of the Rose
Giordano, Paolo - The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Levi, Primo - The Periodic Table
Maraini, Dacia - Train to Budapest
Ming, Wu - 54
Mozzi, Guilio - Carlo Doesn't Know How to Read
Tabucchi, Antonio - Indian Nocturne

Latvian

Ikstena, Nora - Elza Kuga's Old-Age Dementia

Lichtenstein

Sprenger, Stefan - Dust

Lithuanian

Kalinauskaitė, Danutė - Just Things

Macedonian

Minevski, Blaže - Academician Sisoye's Inaugural Speech
Smilevski, Goce - Conversation With Spinoza

Moldovan

Ciocan, Iulian - Auntie Frosea

Montenegrin

Nikolaidis, Andrej - So Much Time For So Few Things
Spahić, Ognjen - Raymond is No Longer with Us – Carver is Dead

Norwegian

Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne:
---Absalom's Hair
---A Happy Boy
Fosse, Jon - Aliss at the Fire
Grytten, Frode - Hotel by a Railroad
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.
Kielland, Alexander:
---Skipper Worse
---Tales of Two Countries
---See Also - "Kielland", posted to the South Wing website.
Lie, Jonas - Weird Tales from Northern Seas
Petterson, Per - In the Wake
Staalesen, Gunnar - The Consorts of Death
Wiese, Jan - The Naked Madonna

Polish

Ficowski, Jerzy - Waiting for the Dog to Sleep
Huelle, Paweł - Castorp
Kapuściński, Ryszard - The Soccer War
Konwicki, Tadeusz - The Polish Complex
Mrożek, Sławomir - Ketchup
Rudnicki, Janusz - The Sorrows of Idiot Augustus
Schulz, Bruno - The Street of Crocodiles
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.
Szewc, Piotr - Annihilation
Tokarczuk, Olga:
---The Bean Prophecies
---The Ugliest Woman in the World

Portuguese

Antunes, Antonio Lobo - Fado Alexandrino
Gersão, Teolinda - Four Children, Two Dogs and Some Birds
Saramago, José:
---Death With Interruptions
---Seeing
Tavares, Gonçalo M. - Six Tales
Zink, Rui - Tourist Destination

Roman

Aurelius, Marcus - Meditations

Romanian

Adameşteanu, Gabriela - The Hour Commute
Agopian, Ştefan - The Art of War
Bican, Florin - Penguins
Bittel, Adriana - Names
Blandiana, Ana - The Open Window
Cărtărescu, Mircea - Clockwork Animals
Cristofovici, Anca - Stela's Return
Lazarescu, Florin - The Lamp with the Cap
Lungu, Dan:
---Mr. Escu's Adventure
---To the Cemetery
Petrescu, Răzvan - Wedding Photos
Ruşti, Doina - Bill Clinton's Hand
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
Tanase, Stelian - Zgaiba
Teodorovici, Lucian Dan:
---Chewing Gum
---Goose Chase
Wiesel, Elie - Night

Russian

Davydov, Danila - The Telescope
Gelasimov, Andrei - The Evil Eye
Goncharov, Ivan - Oblomov
Lermontov, Mikhail - A Hero of Our Time
Nabokov, Vladimir - Pale Fire
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr - The Oak and The Calf
Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons

Scottish

Ledgard, J. M. - Giraffe

Serbian

Arsenijević, Vladimir - One Minute: Dumbo's Death
Basara, Svetislav - The Cyclist Conspiracy
Dimitrijević, Dejana - The Cover
Dimovska, Milica Mićić - Boutique Cinderella
Novaković, Mirjana - Fear and Servant
Ognjenović, Vida - Adulterers
Stanković, Slavoljub – The Box
Valjarević, Srdjan - Lake Como
Živković, Zoran - Time Gifts

Slovak

Hochel, Braňo - My Best Story
Gál, Róbert:
---Agnomia
---Signs and Symptoms
Johanides, Ján - Berlin in the Afternoon, at a Quarter to Winter
Juráňová, Jana - Clips
Karvaš, Peter - Xerox of a Document about One Half of (the Art of) Life
Klimáček, Viliam - Cosmonauts' Square • Generation Ю
Kompaníková, Monika - Slávko
Kovalyk, Uršuľa - Mrs. Agnes's Bathroom
Rankov, Pavol - The Period in Which We Live
Šimko, Dušan - Excursion to Dubrovnik
Vilikovský, Pavel - Ever Green Is...

Slovenian

Blatnik, Andrej:
---Too Close Together
---You Do Understand
Jančar, Drago - The Prophecy

Spanish

Barbal, Maria - Stone in a Landslide
Fernández Paz, Agustín - This Strange Lucidity
Galdós, Benito Pérez - Dona Perfecta
Ibarz, Mercé - Nela and the Virgins
Millás, Juan José - R. J.'s Tiny Corpse
Pérez-Reverte, Arturo - The Fencing Master
Somoza, Jose Carlos - Zig Zag
Vila-Matas, Enrique - Far From Here

Swedish

Lagerkvist, Par - The Dwarf
Sjöwall, Maj and Wahlöö, Per - The Man on the Balcony
Wästberg, Per - The Journey of Anders Sparrman

Swiss

Camenisch, Arno - Sez Ner
Schertenleib, Hansjörg - A Happy Man
Stefan, Verena - Doe a Deer

Turkish

Üldes, Ersan - Professional Behaviour

Welsh

Roberts, Wiliam Owen - The Professionals

Oceania

---Australian

Australian

Astley, Thea - The Well Dressed Explorer
Barry, John Arthur - Far Inland Football
Baynton, Barbara - Squeaker's Mate
Clarke, Marcus - Pretty Dick
Fortune, Mary - The Dead Witness; or, the Bush Waterhole
Goldsworthy, Peter - Maestro
Hartnett, Sonya:
---Any Dog
---Of A Boy
Hospital, Janette Turner - Hurricane Season
Keneally, Thomas - A Commonwealth of Thieves
Lang, John George - The Ghost Upon the Rail
Le, Nam - The Boat
Malouf, David - Child's Play
McDonald, Roger - Mr Darwin's Shooter
McGahan, Andrew - Praise
Miller, Alex:
---Lovesong
---The Sitters
Murnane, Gerald - Tamarisk Row
Prichard, Katharine Susannah - The Curse
Stead, Christina - Street Idyll
Stivens, Dal - A Horse of Air
Tsiolkas, Christos - The Jesus Man
Winton, Tim:
---Breath
---Neighbours
Yaxley, Richard - The Rose Leopard
Zable, Arnold - Sea of Many Returns

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