The Complete Review’s Most Underappreciated Books
Source: http://www.complete-review.com/rest/underapp.htm
• Mischief, Chris Wilson
Brilliant fun, but (like almost all his work) lost out of print
• The works of Ahmadou Kourouma
An important and interesting author, many of whose works are available, yet in the English-speaking world he is hardly noticed
• The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by her Minstrel, Laura Irmtraud Morgner
A modern classic, mixing politics and fantasy, one of the most impressive novels published in the 1970s, finally available in English more than 25 years after it first appeared
• Loving Sabotage, Amélie Nothomb
This much-praised (by the complete review, and abroad) and very fine novel is finally available in English, and has ridiculously received practically no critical (or other) notice
• Complete Works & Other Stories, Augusto Monterroso
Brilliant stuff by a brilliant writer, and the only collection of his work currently in print in English
• Stories of Mr. Keuner, Bertolt Brecht
Finally available in English, and yet hardly anyone even notices
• Quantum Dialogue, Mara Beller
Clever, fascinating stuff, very well presented
• A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family, Peter Dimock
A small little novel, worthy of more attention
• Honk if you love Aphrodite, Daniel Evan Weiss
Clever and fun modern American fiction, ignored by every major (and almost all minor) review outlets
• Death and the Dervish, Mesa Selimovic
The internationally acclaimed book has not made much of an impact in its long-awaited English translation
• The Anathemata, David Jones
Hailed in its time, praised by T.S.Eliot and Auden, but apparently unfashionable nowadays
• The School for Atheists, Arno Schmidt
Fascinating stuff–yet critically ignored
• Bedlam Burning, Geoff Nicholson
His most recent title, and one of his best, but limited coverage and publicity
• The works of Patrick White
The great Nobel laureate is one of the major English-language writers of the second half of the 20th century, and yet his work is fading out of print, with hardly anything still available