Oroonoko is already in, so no need for anything there. I'm not as good with obscure, my literary choices have always tended towards the more well known. I was about to make a play for
Quo Vadis until I realise the author won the Nobel Prize for Literature. I don't think that can really count as obscure.
I'll throw this out there and paola might have a go at me for encroaching on firm Italian territory, but how about
Orlando Furioso?
Quote:
`I sing of knights and ladies, of love and arms, of courtly chivalry, of courageous deeds.' So begins Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1532), the culmination of the chivalric legends of Charlemagne and the Saracen invasion of France. It is a brilliantly witty parody of the medieval romances, and a fitting monument to the court society of the Italian Renaissance which gave them birth. This unabridged prose translation faithfully captures the narrative entire and is a kaleidoscope
of scenes and emotions of fact and fantasy.
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I'm not totally invested at this stage, but I'll throw it out there as a nomination in case others think it would be a good read.