Final Matters: Selected Poems, 2004-2010: 130 (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation, 130) - Hardcover

Borbély, Szilárd

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691182426 ISBN 13: 9780691182421

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2019

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"Szil rd Borb ly's life's work is as significant as it is tragic. He was a poet--a great poet--who shatters us."--L szl Krasznahorkai, winner of the Man Booker International Prize "Any reader will find a mine full of treasure within Final Matters, and every reader of poetry should have a copy of this excellent translation of Borb ly's masterful work."---Bruce Arlen Wasserman, New York Journal of Books "Szil rd Borb ly was one of the best and most original poets and novelists of his generation--and Ottilie Mulzet is a wonderful translator of his work: her ear for nuance is excellent and precise."--George Szirtes, award-winning poet and translator

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An award-winning translator presents selections from the haunting final volumes of a leading voice in contemporary Hungarian poetry Szil rd Borb ly, one of the most celebrated writers to emerge from post-Communist Hungary, received numerous literary awards in his native country. In this volume, acclaimed translator Ottilie Mulzet reveals the full range and force of Borb ly's verse by bringing together generous selections from his last two books, Final Matters and To the Body. The original Hungarian text is set on pages facing the English translations, and the book also features an afterword by Mulzet that places the poems in literary, historical, and biographical context. Restless, curious, learned, and alert, Borb ly weaves into his work an unlikely mix of Hungarian folk songs, Christian and Jewish hymns, classical myths, police reports, and unsettling accounts of abortions. In her afterword, Mulzet calls this collection "a blasphemous and fragmentary prayer book ... that challenges us to rethink the boundaries of victimhood, culpability, and our own religious and cultural definitions."

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• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0691182426
• ISBN 13: 9780691182421
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200