Foreign Post-Apocalyptic Novels

I've mentioned a few times that I'm intersted in non-American perspectives of the end of the world, but I haven't had much luck finding post-apocalyptic novels originally written in something other than English. The only foreign PA novel that I can recall reading is Malevil, and I only know of a few others.

Probably the most notable recent example is the Russian novel Metro 2033 (and its sequel, Metro 2034), which I plan to read as soon as I can get my hands on it. My limited searching has only turned up three others - the French Ravage from 1943 and La Compagnie des Glaces (The Ice Company) from 1980, and Russian novel, The Last War, from 1970.

Does anyone know of any others that would be worth tracking down?

Comments

[Brian Busby]

A bit late here, but I've only just finished William C. Heine's The Last Canadian (1974), which I first read at age twelve. I write this more as a warning. It's a terrible book... not worth tracking down, despite raves on various survivalist websites and blogs.

If you are at all interested, I've written a piece on the novel:

http://brianbusby.blogspot.com/2010/02/at-long-last-lunacy.html

[admin]

Hey Brian, thanks for the tip. It does sound like something I would have wanted to track down, but now I think I'll spend my efforts elsewhere.

[Chris]

I haven't read them, but you could try:
The Slynx (Russian) by Tatyana Tolstaya
Quinzinzinzilli (French) by Régis Messac

I believe that Blindness by Jose Saramago was originally written in Portuguese; the English version I read certainly felt like a translation.

[MEGATØN]

Hey thanks, I'll check them out. I actually started Blindness once, but didn't get very far into it. Maybe I'll try it again.