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by Danilo Kiš (1983)

A collection of metaphysical short stories set in various times and places, luminously darkened with the themes of fate and death’s impenetrability.

by Danilo Kiš (1976)

Seven different yet casually interlinked short stories about revolutionaries, mostly centering around the Russian Revolution

by Danilo Kiš (1972)

An old railway clerk, preoccupied with his quotidian concerns, attempted to find out why his pension was being reduced as the extermination of the Jews were taking place.

by László Krasznahorkai (1989)

A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the whole world, arrives in the dead of winter in a small town in Hungary, prompting bizarre rumors.

by Arthur Koestler (1940)

A fictional account of a show trial during Stalin’s 1930s purges, Rubashov, the protagonist, once a revolutionary disillusioned by the regime, is abducted, jailed, tortured (psychologically) and finally confessed to a series of “counter-revolutionary” crimes he didn’t commit, for the ideals of the Revolution.