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In a Bucolic Land
Engelsk Paperback
In a Bucolic Land
Engelsk Paperback

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A moving, posthumous collection of elegies and eclogues that meditate on nature, landscape, and history, by a great Hungarian poet.

Szilárd Borbély spent his childhood in a tiny impoverished village in northeastern Hungary, where the archaic peasant world of Eastern Europe coexisted with the collectivist ideology of a new Communist state. Close to the Soviet border and far from any metropolitan center, the village was a world apart: life was harsh, monotonous, and often brutal, and the Borbélys, outsiders and “class enemies,” were shunned. In a Bucolic Land, Borbély’s final, posthumously published book of poems, combines autobiography, ethnography, classical mythology, and pastoral idyll in a remarkable central poetic sequence about the starkly precarious and yet strangely numinous liminal zone of his youth. This is framed by elegies for a teacher 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 László Krasznahorkai has said, “He was a poet—a great poet—who shatters us.”

This English-only edition does not include the poems in their original language.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
160
ISBN-13:
9781681375915
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1681375915
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
11 jan 2022
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
176mm
Højde:
114mm
Forlag:
New York Review Books
Oplagsdato:
11 jan 2022