{"product_id":"berlin-hamlet-szil-rd-borbly-9781681370545","title":"Berlin-Hamlet","description":"\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2017 National Translation Award in Poetry and the 2017 Best Translated Book Award in Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBefore his tragic death, Szil rd Borb ly had gained a name as one of Europe's most searching new poets. \u003ci\u003eBerlin-Hamlet\u003c\/i\u003e--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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Szilárd Borbély\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1681370549\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681370545\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.00h x 4.60w x 0.30d","brand":"Szilárd Borbély","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44073178693887,"sku":"9781681370545","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_066c39e7-babe-497c-9363-65060ac70b57.jpg?v=1685446279","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/berlin-hamlet-szil-rd-borbly-9781681370545","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}