The Blood of Others (Beauvoir) 43
Blood Red, Sister Rose (Keneally) 239
Blood and Sand (Sangre y arena) (Blasco)
54
Blood Wedding (García Lorca) 160
“Blow-Up” (Cortázar) 103
Blue (Darío) 111
The Blue Angel (Professor Unrat) (H.
Mann) 280
The Blue Bird (Oiseau bleu) (Maeterlinck)
270
Blue Box (Köhler) 243
The Blue Cat (Hagiwara) 189
Blue Journey (Kurahashi) 247
Blue of Noon (Bataille) 40
“Blues” (bpNichol) 323
Blues of a Sailor (Yu) 459
A Boat Load of Home Folk (Astley) 31
Böll, Heinrich 54, 183
“Bonaparte” (Hölderlin) 208
Bones of the Cuttlefish (Montale) 301
Bonjour et adieu à la négritude (Hello and
Goodbye to Négritude) (Dépestre) 114
La Bonne Chanson (Verlaine) 443
Bonnefoy, Yves 55
“Bontsche the Silent” (Peretz) 347
The Book (Adonis) 8
Booker Prize (England)
for Atwood 32
for Carey 77
for Coetzee 97
for Gordimer 177
for Jhabvala 226
for Naipaul 311
for Ondaatje 335
for Rushdie 377
Book of Exercises (Seferis) 393
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
(Kundera) 244
A Book of New Zealand Verse: 1923-45
(Curnow, ed.) 105
The Book of Songs (Heine) 201
The Book of the Hours: The Book of
Monastic Life (Rilke) 369
Book of the Year Award (Germany) 16
Boom movement 123
Borges, Jorge Luis 55–56, 270
Boris Godunov (Pushkin) 358
Born of the Storm (Ostrovsky) 337
Bosnian literature, Andric in 21
Bosnian Story (Andric) 21
Botchan (Natsume) 314
“Boule de Suif” (“Ball of Fat”)
(Maupassant) 286
Les Bouts de bois de Dieu (God’s Bits of
Wood) (Sembène) 395
Bouvard et Pécuchet (Flaubert) 148
The Bow and the Lyre (Paz) 345
Boyhood (Tolstoy) 428
“Boys and Girls” (Munro) 305
Bozena Nemcová’s Fan (Seifert) 394
bpNichol. See Nichol, b(arrie) p(hilip)
A Branch of the Blue Nile (Walcott) 447
Brand (Ibsen) 216
Brasch, Charles 56–57
Braschi, Giannina 57
Brathwaite, Edward Kamau 58–59
Brathwaite, Lawson Edward. See
Brathwaite, Edward Kamau
Braun, Volker 59
Brazilian Academy of Letters 362
Brazilian literature
Alencar in 14–15
Amado in 17
Freyre in 152–153
Gonçalves Dias in 174
Lispector in 263–264
Machado de Assis in 267–268
Queiróz in 362
Rosas in 376
Brazilian romanticism 174
“Bread, Hashish, and the Moon”
(Kabbani) 231
Break at Noon (Claudel) 95
“Breast-Giver” (Devi) 116
The Breasts of Tiresias (Les mamelles de
Tiresias) (Apollinaire) 24
Brecht, Bertolt 60–61, 180
Bremen Literature Prize 153
Brenner Prize 365
Brentano, Catarina Elizabetha Ludovica
Magdalena. See Arnim, Bettin von
Breton, André 62, 84, 107, 131
Breytenbach, Breyten 63–64
The Bridal Canopy (Agnon) 8–9
The Bride of Texas (S
ˇ
kvorecky´) 404
The Bridge of Beyond (Pluie et vent sur
Télumée Miracle) (Schwarz-Bart) 392
The Bridge on the Drina (Andric) 21
A Brief Life (La Vida Breve) (Onetti) 335
Bright Sunny Skies (Hao) 406
Bring Larks and Heroes (Keneally)
239–240
Brink, André 64–65
Brinkmann, Rolf Dieter 65–66
Broch, Hermann 66
The Broken Wing (Naidu) 310
The Bronze Horseman (Pushkin) 358
Brothers (Ungaretti) 437
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky)
124–125
Bruman, Simone. See Schwarz-Bart, Simone
Brunizem (Bhatt) 51
Bryusov, Valery 67
Büchner, Georg 67–68
Büchner Prize. See Georg Büchner Prize
Buddenbrooks (T. Mann) 281
“Bukit China” (“Chinese Hill”) (Lim) 263
Bulgakov, Mikhail 68–69
Bullie’s House (Keneally) 240
Bumi Manusia (Toer) 427
Bungei Award 455
Bunin, Ivan 69–70
Burger’s Daughter (Gordimer) 176–177
The Burgomeister of Stilemonde
(Maeterlinck) 270
The Buried Temple (Maeterlinck) 270
Burkart, Erika 70–71
The Burning Green Tree (‘e) 332
Bus Stop (Gao) 158
Busia, Abena 71
Buson the Haiku Poet (Masaoka) 285
Das Butt (The Flounder) (Grass) 180
C
Cabrera Infante, Guillermo 72–73
Caeiro, Alberto. See Pessoa, Fernando
Cahier d’un retour au pays natal (Return to
My Native Land) (Césaire) 84, 317
Cahier de verdure (Notebook of Green)
(Jaccottet) 224
Cain, G. See Cabrera Infante, Guillermo
Cairo trilogy (Mahfouz) 272
Caligula (Camus) 74
The Call (Der Ruf) (journal) 183
Calligrammes (Apollinaire) 24, 323
“The Call of the River Nun” (Okara) 334
Calvino, Italo 73–74
Camion (M. Duras) 127
Camoens Prize (Portugal) 17
Campos, Alvaro de. See Pessoa, Fernando
Camus, Albert 42, 74–75, 137
Canadian Born (P. Johnson) 228
Canadian literature. See also French-
Canadian literature; Québecois
literature
Atwood in 31–32
Davies in 112–113
Hébert in 200
Ipellie in 220
Johnson, Pauline, in 227–228
Kogawa in 243
Maillet in 274
Munro in 305–306
Roberts in 373
S
ˇ
kvorecky´ in 403–404
Cancer Ward (Solzhenitsyn) 408
Candle (Akhmadulina) 10
Canetti, Elias 75–76
Cannes Film Festival 1, 238
Cannon Shot and Glass Beads: Modern
Black Writing (Lamming, ed.) 254
La Cantatrice chauve (The Bald Soprano)
(Ionesco) 219, 425
I Canti (Leopardi) 260
Canto General (Neruda) 319
Canto novo (D’Annunzio) 110
Cantos para soldados y sones para turistas
(Songs for Soldiers and Sounds for
Tourists) (N. Guillén) 184
Cape of Storms (Brink) 65
Capécia, Mayotte 76
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