Julien Gracq ; translated from the French and with a foreword by Richard Howard. Alfred Doblin ; translated from the German and with an afterword by Michael Hofmann. Alfred Deoblin ; translated from the German and with an afterword by Michael Hofmann. Kurt Tucholsky ; translated from the German and with an introduction by Michael Hofmann. Franz Kafka ; translated from the German by J.A. Underwood ; with a foreword by Jorge Luis Borges. Thomas Bernhard ; translated from the German by David McLintock ; with a new afterword by Michael Hofmann. José Saramago ; translated from the Portuguese and with an introduction by Giovanni Pontiero. Cees Nooteboom ; translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke ; with a foreword by David Mitchell. Varlam Shalamov ; translated from the Russian and with an introduction by Donald Rayfield.