SUGGESTED FICTION IN TRANSLATION

Roberto Arlt, The Seven Madmen, translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor, with an introduction by Julio Cortazar (New York: New York Review Books, 2015).

Tahar Ben Jelloun, This Blinding Absence of Light, translated from the French by Linda Coverdale (New York: Penguin Books, 2005)..

Umberto Eco, Numero Zero: A Novel, translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon (Boston & New York Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015).

Johann Peter Hebel, The Treasure Chest, introduction and translated from the German by John Hibberd (New York: Penguin Classics/ Penguin Books, 1995).

Wolfgang Hilbig, 'I', translated from the German  by Isabel Fargo Cole (New York: Seagull Books, 2015).

Wolfgang Hilbig, The Sleep of the Righteous, translated from the German  by Isabel Fargo Cole (San Francisco: Two Lines Press, 2015).

Michel Houellebecq, Submission: A Novel, translated from the French by Lorin Stein (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015).

Walter Kempowski, All For Nothing, translated from the German by Anthea Bell (London; Granta Books, 2011)

Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle, Book One, translated from the Norwegian by Don Barden (Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2012).

Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle, Book Two: A Man In Love, translated from the Norwegian by Don Barden (Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2013).

Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle, Book Three: Boyhood, translated from the Norwegian by Don Barden (Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2014).

Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle, Book Four, translated from the Norwegian by Don Barden (Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2015).

Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Time for Everything, translated from the Norwegian by James Anderson (Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2009).

Eka Kurniawan, Beauty Is a Wound: A Novel, translated from the Indonesian by Annie Tucker (New York: New Directions, 2015).

Eka Kurniawan, Man Tiger: A Novel, translated from the Indonesian by Labodalih Sembiring (London & New York: Verso , 2015).

Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Satantango, translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes (New York: New Directions, 2012).

Multatuli (aka Eduard Douwes Dekker), Max Havelaar, Or the Coffee Auctions of a Dutch Trading Company, translated from the Dutch by Roy Edwards, introduction by R. P. Meijer (New York: Penguin Classics/Penguin Books), 1987.

Ippolito Nievo, Confessions of an Italian, translated from the Italian by Frederika Randall; introduction by Lucy Riall (New York: Penguin Classics/Penguin Books, 2014).

Rosa Nissan, Like a Bride and Like a Mother: Two Novels (Jewish Latin America Series), translated from the Spanish by Dick Gerdes, introduction by Ilan Stavans (Albuquergue: U. of New Mexico Press, 2002).

Orhan Pamuk, A Strangeness in My Mind, translated from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap (New York: Knopf, 2015).

Alessandro Spina, The Confines of the Shadow: In Lands Overseas, Volume 1, translated from the Italian by Andre Naffis-Sahely (London: Darf Publications, 2015).

Magda Szabo, The Door, translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix, with an introduction by Ali Smith (New York: New York Review Books, 2005).

IMRE KERTESZ

Imre Kertesz, Detective Story: A Novel, translated from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson (New York: Vintage International/Vintage Books, 2009).

Imre Kertesz, Dossier K., translated from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson (Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, 2013) ("The only people who were not besmirched by the shame of the Holocaust were the dead. It is painful to carry the brand of surviving for some unaccountable reason. You remained here so you could spread the Auschwitz myth; you remained here as a sort of freak. You are invited to attend anniversaries; your irresolute face is video-recorded, your faltering voice, you hardly notice that you've become a kitsch supporting character in a fraudulent narrative, and you sell for peanuts your own story, which bit by bit you yourself understand least of all. But instead of mourning your lost story, you complain about your daily food ration. You rake in the breast-beating remorse of the jubilee speeches because you believe the mass is being said for you, and you are late in noticing that you have already played your part and there is no longer any need for you here." Id. at 187.).

Imre Kertesz, Fatelessness A Novel, translated from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson (New York: Vintage International/Vintage Books, 2004).

Imre Kertesz, Fiasco, translated from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson (Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, 2011).

Imre Kertesz, The Holocaust Culture, translated from the Hungarian by Thomas Cooper (London: Seagull Books, 2011) (From "A Conversation with Imre Kertesz": "Chancellor Merkel, when she took office, said that the Holocaust was a part of the German Volk, the identity of the German Volk. And, of course, most the historical scholarship on the Holocaust has been done in Germany. But the point is that it's not seen simply as an event of history but, rather, as an event that casts an entirely different light on all our ideas about ethics and morality." Id. at 43. "If we want to understand National Socialism then we need to understand the workings of a dictatorship in which the individual was deprived of the ability to decide and was forced to play a role in the system. But this is not something peculiar to German history. We speak of collective guilt, the collective guilt of the German nation. But Auschwitz is the collective crime of the entire world, not just of the German nation. If we think of the Holocaust as a war between Germans and Jews then we will never understand it." Id. at 48.).

Imre Kertesz, Kaddish for an Unborn Child, translated from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson (New York: Vintage International/Vintage Books, 2004) (meditations on the Holocaust).

Imre Kertesz, Liquidation: A Novel, translated from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson (New York: Vintage International/Vintage Books, 2004) (the catastrophes of Holocaust and communism).

Imre Kertesz, The Pathseeker (The Contemporary Art of the Novella), translated from the Hungarian and an afterword by Tim Wilkinson (Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, 2008) (" 'There's no such thing as chance,' he heard dully and tremulously from behind the veil. 'Only justice.' " Id. at 80.).

Imre Kertesz, The Union Jack (The Contemporary Art of the Novella), translated from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson (Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, 2009).

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Rene Guenon, The Metaphysical Principles of the Infinitesimal Calculus (Collected Works of Rene Guenon), translated from the French by Michael Allen & Henry D. Fohr, edited by Samuel D. Fohr (Hillsdale, NY: Sophia Perennis, 1946, 2003).

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Rene Guenon, The Great Triad (Collected Works of Rene Guenon), translated from the French by Henry D. Fohr, edited by Samuel D. Fohr (Hillsdale, NY: Sophia Perennis, 1946, 2001).

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Rene Guenon, Perspectives on Initiation (Collected Works of Rene Guenon), translated from the French by Henry D. Fohr, edited by Samuel D. Fohr (Hillsdale, NY: Sophia Perennis, 1946, 2001).

FOUR FICTIONS

John Banville, The Blue Guitar: A Novel (New York: Knopf, 2015) (See Craig Taylor, "Stealing Beauty," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 9/27/2015.).

Bill Clegg, Did You Ever Have a Family: A Novel (New York: Scout Press, 2015) (See Kaui Hart Hemmings, "Then It Was Gone," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 9/6/2015.).

Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations: A Novel (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015).

Norman Mailer, An American Dream: A Novel New York: Random House, 2015).

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Rene Guenon, The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times (Collected Works of Rene Guenon), translated from the French by Lord Northbourne (Hillsdale, NY: Sophia Perennis, 1945, 2001).