Italian edit
- Giovanni Papini (1881-1956)
- Il Tragico Quotidiano (1906, The Tragic Everyday)
- Il Pilota Cieco (1907; The Blind Pilot)
- Parole e Sangue (1912; Words and Blood)
- Attilio Momigliano (1883-1952). Saggio su l' 'Orlando furioso' (1928; An Essay on "Orlando Furioso")
- Dino Buzzati (1906-1972). Il deserto dei Tartari (The Tartar Steppe, 1940, tr. by Stuart Hood)
German edit
- Franz Kafka Amerika, Short Stories
- Hermann Hesse. The Glass Bead Game
- Gustav Meyrink (1868-1932). Der Golem (The Golem, 1914)
Other edit
- Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855). Frygt og Bæven, 1843; Fear and Trembling
- Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906)
- Peer Gynt, 1867
- Hedda Gabler, 1891
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) Demons, 1871–2
- José Maria de Eça de Queirós (1845–1900). O Mandarim, 1880 The Mandarin and Other Stories
Ancient edit
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- Book of the Dead
- Bhagavad Gita
- Herodotus (c. 484–c. 425 BCE). The Histories (440 BCE)
- Virgil (70-19 BCE). The Aeneid
- Claudius Aelianus (c. 175-c. 235). De Natura Animalium (On the Nature of Animals)
- Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241). Egil's Saga
- Marco Polo. Travels
- The Thousand and One Nights
- Apocryphal Gospels
Medieval edit
- 1330–1343 Libro de buen amor (The Book of Good Love) by Juan Ruiz (c. 1283 – c. 1350)
- The Tales of Ise