A
Literary Saloon
&
Site of Review.
Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.
| Main |
 |
| the Best |
| the Rest |
| Review Index |
| Links |
to e-mail us:
Foreign Books
(not yet available in English)
reviewed at the complete review
Authors do write in languages other than English, and some do it quite well. Publishers -- American publishers, especially -- don't have wide horizons, and they often miss much of the important work being done abroad. There is a trickle of literary translations, but it is small.
At the complete review we want to make you aware of some of the things you are missing, as well as books that you are likely to hear about in the years to come. That is why we also offer reviews of books that are not yet available in English.
Foreign Books currently
under Review:
- Books in Albanian
- Books in Belarusian
- Books in Bulgarian
- Books in Chinese
- Books in Czech
- Books in Dutch
- Books in English
- Books in Finnish
- Books in French
- Books in Georgian
- Books in German
- Books in Hungarian
- Books in Icelandic
- Books in Italian
- Books in Japanese
- Books in Norwegian
- Books in Persian
- Books in Portuguese
- Books in Russian
- Books in Serbo-Croatian/Bosnian
- Books in Spanish
- Books in Swedish
- Books in Ukrainian
Books in Albanian under Review:
- Dritëro AGOLLI's novel:
Return to top of page.
Books in Belarusian under Review:
- Victor MARTINOVICH's novel:
Return to top of page.
Books in Bulgarian under Review:
- Léa COHEN's novel:
- Victor PASKOV's novel:
- Vladimir ZAREV's novel of Bulgaria's post-communist transition:
Return to top of page.
Books in Chinese under Review:
- XU Xing's novel:
Return to top of page.
- Michal VIEWEGH's novel:
Return to top of page.
- Maarten ASSCHER's novels:
- Jessica DURLACHER's novel:
- Quite a few works by Arnon GRUNBERG:
- Het aapje dat geluk pakt
- De asielzoeker
- Het bestand
- Huid en haar
- De man zonder ziekte
- Onze oom
- Het tweede bestand
- Five novels by A. F. Th. VAN DER HEIJDEN:
- Three of Willem Frederik HERMANS' novels:
- Marek VAN DER JAGT's 2002 boekenweekessay:
- Three by Harry MULISCH:
- His first novel, Archibald Strohalm
- His recent novel, Het theater, de brief en de waarheid
- His marvelous essay on a book he did not write, De toekomst van gisteren
- Six novels by Leon de WINTER:
Return to top of page.
Books written in English but only available in translation under Review:
- Solomonica de WINTER's debut:
Return to top of page.
Books in Finnish under Review:
- Two novels by Kari HOTAKAINEN:
- Three novels by Arto PAASILINNA:
- Hannu RAITTILA's Finlandia-Prize-winning novel:
- Johanna SINISALO's Iron Sky-novelization:
Return to top of page.
- Olivier ADAM's novel:
- Three works by Annie ERNAUX:
- Paul FOURNEL's 99 notes préparatoires à l'écriture d'un roman policier:
- Jean-Marie LACLAVETINE's tale of the dark world of publishing, and aspiring authors:
- Now quite a few books by Amélie NOTHOMB are available in English -- but some still aren't. Never fear, the complete review is here to show you what else you are missing:
- See the complete review's Amélie Nothomb page
- Les aérostats
- Attentat
- Barbe bleue
- Cosmétique de l'ennemi
- Le crime du comte Neville
- Journal d'Hirondelle
- Mercure
- La nostalgie heureuse
- Péplum
- Le voyage d'hiver
- Jean-Michel PALMIER's massive monograph:
- Walter Benjamin: Le chiffonier, l'Ange et le Petit Bossu
- Yasmina REZA's short:
- Eric-Emannuel SCHMITT's novel:
- Laurent SEKSIK's novel:
- Michel ZUMKIR's Portrait d'un monstre littéraire:
Return to top of page.
Books in Georgian under Review:
- Lasha BUGADZE's
- Archil KIKODZE's
- Tamta MELASCHWILI's
- Aka MORCHILADZE's
Return to top of page.
- Carolin AMLINGER's:
- Schreiben: Eine Soziologie literarischer Arbeit
- Jürg AMANN's Kriminalnovelle:
- Sibylle BERG's novel:
- Philipp BLOM's novel:
- Poetry and fiction from Volker BRAUN:
- Auf die schönen Possen
- Berichte von Hinze und Kunze
- Hinze-Kunze-Roman
- Lustgarten, Preußen
- Das unbesetzte Gebiet
- Die Unvollendete Geschichte und ihr Ende
- Werktage
- Hermann BURGER's posthumously published first novel:
- Rudolf CARNAP's diaries:
- The first volume in Alfred DÖBLIN's November 1918-series:
- Raphaela EDELBAUER's novel:
- Hans Magnus ENZENSBERGER's:
- Paul FEYERABEND's correspondence with Hans ALBERT:
- Susanne FISCHER'sstudy:
- »Julia, laß das!«: Arno Schmidts Zettelkasten zu Julia, oder die Gemälde
- Four by Thomas GLAVINIC:
- Eight titles by Durs GRÜNBEIN:
- Erklärte Nacht
- Das erste Jahr
- Galilei vermißt Dantes Hölle
- Grauzone morgens
- Porzellan
- Schädelbasislektion
- Den Teuren Toten
- Vom Schnee
- Warum schriftlos leben
- See also the complete review's Durs Grünbein page
- Wolf HAAS' Simon Brenner-mysteries:
- Byung-Chul HAN on:
- Peter HANDKE's novels:
- Sven HANUSCHEK's biography:
- Nino HARATISCHWILI's novel:
- Josef HASLINGER's tsunami-account:
- Christoph HEIN's recent novels:
- Wilhelm HEINSE's 1787 classic:
- Quite a few books by Daniel KEHLMANN:
- Beerholms Vorstellung
- Der fernste Ort
- Lichtspiel
- Mahlers Zeit
- Unter der Sonne
- Wo ist Carlos Montúfar ?
- See also the complete review's Daniel Kehlmann page
- Eduard von KEYSERLING's:
- Three novels by Radek KNAPP:
- Stefan KUTZENBERGER's:
- Hans LEBERT's:
- Thomas LEHR's novels:
- Bestselling author Charlotte LINK's:
- Giwi MARGWELASCHWILI's:
- Olga MARTYNOVA's:
- Two by Robert MENASSE:
- His novel, Die Vertreibung aus der Hölle
- His essay collection, Erklär mir Österreich
- Michel METTLER's debut:
- Karl MICKEL's libretto:
- Libuse MONÍKOVÁ's posthumous novel:
- Martin MOSEBACH's German Book Prize shortlisted novel
- Adolf MUSCHG's novel
- Oskar PASTIOR's Baudelaire-variations:
- Doron RABINOVICI's novel:
- Works by Brigitte REIMANN:
- Eugen RUGE's novel:
- Alexander SCHIMMELBUSCH's Thomas Bernhard-novel:
- Arno SCHMIDT's novel:
- Julia, oder die Gemälde: Scenen aus dem Novecento
- Werner SCHMIDT's biography:
- Peter Weiss: Leben eines kritischen Intellektuellen
- Walter SERNER's:
- Clemens J. SETZ's:
- Two early works by Johannes Mario SIMMEL:
- Benjamin STEIN's dystopian novel:
- Wilfried STEINER's novels:
- Andreas STICHMANN's German Book Prize-longlisted novel:
- Antje Rávic STRUBEL's critically acclaimed:
- Two novels by Ernst WEISS:
- Various works by Peter WEISS:
- Markus WERNER's novel:
- Oswald WIENER's 1969 novel:
- Frank WITZEL's 2015 German Book Prize-winning novel:
- A collection of Brecht-criticism edited by Monika Wyss:
- Dorothea ZEEMANN's 1959 novel:
Return to top of page.
Books in Hungarian under Review:
- ESTERHÁZY Péter's:
- Utazás a tizenhatos mélyére (available in German)
- Nobel laureate KERTÉSZ Imre's:
- Valaki más (available in French and German)
Return to top of page.
Books in Icelandic under Review:
- Hallgrímur HELGASON's Halldór Laxness-novel:
Return to top of page.
Books in Italian under Review:
- Gesualdo BUFALINO's:
- Maurizio TESTA's:
Return to top of page.
Books in Japanese under Review:
- ŌE Kenzaburō's
- OGAWA Yoko's novels:
Return to top of page.
Books in Norwegian under Review:
- Lars Saabye CHRISTENSEN's:
- Niels Fredrik DAHL's novel:
- Two of Jan KJÆRSTAD's novels:
Return to top of page.
Books in Persian (Farsi) under Review:
- Four novels by Mahmud DOULATABADI:
- Kelidar - I (available in German)
- Kelidar - II (available in German)
- Safar (available in German)
- Amir Hassan CHEHELTAN's
- آمریکایی کُشی در تهران (available in German)
- Fattaneh HAJ SEYED JAVADI's Iranian bestseller:
- بامداد خمار (available in German)
- Muhammad 'Ali NAQIB al-MAMALIK's Persian classic:
- Zoya PIRZAD's prize-winning novel:
Return to top of page.
Books in Portuguese under Review:
- Luis Fernando VERISSIMO's:
Return to top of page.
Books in Russian under Review:
- Andrey KURKOV's novel:
- Boris ZHITKOV's novel:
Return to top of page.
Books in Serbo-Croatian/Bosnian under Review:
Return to top of page.
Books in Spanish under Review:
- Adolfo BIOY CASARES' mammoth record of:
- [Borges]
- Rosa CHACEL's early novel:
- Two novels by Rafael CHIRBES:
- 'Viscount' LASCANO TEGUI's novel:
- Pablo DE SANTIS' novels:
- José Ángel MAÑAS':
- José Carlos SOMOZA's:
Return to top of page.
Books in Swedish under Review:
- Per Olov ENQUIST's collection:
- Lars GUSTAFSSON's novels:
- Björn LARSSON's thriller:
- One work by Peter WEISS:
Return to top of page.
Books in Ukrainian under Review:
- Yuri ANDRUKHOVYCH's:
- Two novels by Любко ДЕРЕШ:
- Serhiy ZHADAN's:
Return to top of page.
© 2024 the complete review
Main | the New | the Best | the Rest | Review Index | Links