Berlin-Hamlet by Borbély, Szilárd

Berlin-Hamlet (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781681370545)

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Berlin-Hamlet by Borbély, Szilárd

Berlin-Hamlet

$14.00
Berlin-Hamlet by Borbély, Szilárd

Berlin-Hamlet

$14.00
Format: Paperback
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Shortlisted for the 2017 National Translation Award in Poetry and the 2017 Best Translated Book Award in Poetry

Before his tragic death, Szil rd Borb ly had gained a name as one of Europe's most searching new poets. Berlin-Hamlet--one of his major works--evokes a stroll through the phantasmagoric shopping arcades described in Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, but instead of the delirious image fragments of nineteenth-century European culture, we pass by disembodied scraps of written text, remnants as ghostly as their authors: primarily Franz Kafka but also Benjamin himself or the Hungarian poets Attila J zsef or Erno Sz p. Paraphrases and reworked quotations, drawing upon the vanished prewar legacy, particularly its German Jewish aspects, appear in sharp juxtaposition with images of post-1989 Berlin frantically rebuilding itself in the wake of German reunification.

Author: Szilárd Borbély
ISBN-10: 1681370549
ISBN-13: 9781681370545
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2016
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.00h x 4.60w x 0.30d
By Szilárd Borbély
By Szilárd Borbély
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Szilárd Borbély (1963-2014) was born in Fehérgyarmat in eastern Hungary and studied Hungarian philology and literature at the University of Debrecen, where he later taught. An authority on Hungarian literature of the late-Baroque period as well as a writer, Borbély was awarded several literary prizes, including the prestigious Palladium Prize in 2005. His first major critical success was his third book, Hosszú nap el (Long Day Away, 1993), praised by such writers as Péter Esterházy and Péter Nádas. His verse collections Halotti pompa: Szekvenciák (Final Matters: Sequences, 2004) and his novel, Nincstelenek (The Dispossessed, 2013), are considered among the most important Hungarian works of literature of the early millennium. His poems have appeared in English in The American Reader, Asymptote, and Poetry. Berlin-Hamlet is his first full collection to be published in English.

Ottilie Mulzet received the Best Translated Book Award in 2014 for her translation of László Krasznahorkai's Seiobo There Below. Other translations include Borbély's The Dispossessed and Gábor Schein's Lazarus.

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