Berlin-Hamlet / Szilárd Borbély ; translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borbély, Szilárd, 1964-2014, author.

Contributor:

Mulzet, Ottilie, translator.

Series:

New York Review Books poets

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English

Language:

English

Hungarian

Subjects (All):

Borbély, Szilárd, 1964-2014--Translations into English.

Borbély, Szilárd.

Borbély, Szilárd, 1964-2014.

Berlin (Germany)--Poetry.

Berlin (Germany).

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

101 pages ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York Review Books, [2016]

Summary:

"Berlin-Hamlet evokes a stroll through one of the phantasmagoric shopping arcades described in Walter Benjamin's Passagen-Werk--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 Jozsef or Ern Szep. 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 unification"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Originally published in Hungarian (Pecs : Jelenkor, 2003). This is a reissue of Mulzet's English translation edition published by Agite/Fra in Prague, 2008, with some corrections made by the translator.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781681370545

1681370549

OCLC:

940933223