In a Bucolic Land (Poetry)

In a Bucolic Land (Poetry)
Ottilie Mulzet, Szilard Borbely
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11 Jan 2022 US
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9781681375915
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A moving, posthumous collection of elegies and eclogues that meditate on nature, landscape, and history, by a great Hungarian poet. Szilard Borbely' s is one of the most searching and powerful poetic voices to emerge in the twenty-first century. In a Bucolic Land was Borbely' s final work, completed but left unpublished at the time of his premature death in 2014. At the heart of the book are poems in which Borbely returns to his 1960s childhood in a tiny impoverished town in northeastern Hungary. Conditions were brutal, as the poems attest, even as, shifting between present and past, they are also invested with a strange shimmering sense of myth and eternity. The book opens and closes with two elegies for Borbely' s teacher Lajos Szuromi in which the poet meditates on the nature of language and speech and on the adequacy of words to speak of and for the dead. Ottilie Mulzet' s English translation conveys the full power of a writer of whom Laszl Krasznahorkai has said, "He was a poet-a great poet-who shatters us. "
"[Borbely' s] poetry is epoch-making. " -Peter Nadas "Szilard Borbely was one of the best and most original poets and novelists of his generation-and Ottilie Mulzet is a wonderful translator of his work. " -George Szirtes "[Borbely] is considered one of the most important figures in contemporary Hungarian literature, having had an immense impact on the transformation of Hungarian poetry in the last decade, strongly influencing the conceptualization of poetry' s social role and linguistic-thematic possibilities. . . . Borbely' s poetry, prose, and essays try to bring the readers closer to the lives of those who cannot speak of their trauma or suffering. They can be uneducated and poor villagers, survivors of the Holocaust, women grieving after a miscarriage, or victims of terrible aggression. Through Borbely' s texts we readers become increasingly less cruel-hearted. " -Laszlo Bedecs, Asymptote
Szilard J zsef Borbely (1963-2014) was born in Fehergyarmat in eastern Hungary, and studied Hungarian philology and literature at the University of Debrecen, where he was an associate professor. A recognized authority on Hungarian literature of the late Baroque period as well as an author, Borbely was awarded several literary prizes in Hungary, culminating in the highly prestigious Palladium Prize in 2005. His novels Halotti pomp (The Splendours of Death) and The Dispossessed were hailed universally as some of the most important Hungarian works of literature of the decade. His poetry collection Berlin-Hamlet, also translated by Ottilie Mulzet, is available from NYRB Poets. Ottilie Mulzet is a translator of poetry and prose, as well as a literary critic. She has worked as the English-language editor of the internet journal of the Hungarian Cultural Centre in Prague, and in 2014 she received the Best Translated Book Award for her translation of Laszl Krasznahorkai' s novel Seiobo There Below. She is based in Prague.
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ISBN-13: 9781681375915
Published: 11 Jan 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: NYRB Poets
Publisher: The New York Review of Books Inc
Format: Paperback
Height: 178mm
Width: 114mm
Pages: 160

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