An award-winning translator presents selections from the haunting final volumes of a leading voice in contemporary Hungarian poetry
Szilárd Borbély, 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 Borbély'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, Borbély 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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Publisher
Princeton University PressYear
2019Print ISBN
9780691182438
9780691182421
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9780691183879
Nothing
Is
Lost:
Selected
Poems
by
Edvard
Kocbek,
translated
by
Michael
Scammell
and
Veno
Taufer,
and
introduced
by
Michael
Scammell,
with
a
foreword
by
Charles
Simic
e
Complete
Elegies
of
Sextus
Propertius
,
translated
with
introduction
and
notes
by
Vincent
Katz
Knowing
the
East
,
by
Paul
Claudel,
translated
with
introduction
and
notes
by
James
Lawler
Enough
to
Say
It’s
Far:
Selected
Poems
of
Pak
Chaesam
,
translated
by
David
R.
McCann
and
Jiwon
Shin
In
Hora
Mortis/Under
the
Iron
of
the
Moon:
Poems,
by
omas
Bernhard,
translated
by
James
Reidel
e
Greener
Meadow:
Selected
Poems
by
Luciano
Erba,
translated
by
Peter
Robinson
e
Dream
of
the
Poem:
Hebrew
Poetry
from
Muslim
and
Christian
Spain,
950–1492
,
translated,
edited,
and
introduced
by
Peter
Cole
e
Collected
Lyric
Poems
of
Luís
de
Camões
,
translated
by
Landeg
White
C.
P.
Cavafy:
Collected
Poems,
Bilingual
Edition
,
translated
by
Edmund
Keeley
and
Philip
Sherrard,
edited
by
George
Savidis,
with
a
new
preface
by
Robert
Pinsky
Poems
Under
Saturn:
Poèmes
saturniens
,
by
Paul
Verlaine,
translated
and
with
an
introduction
by
Karl
Kirchwey
Final
Matters:
Selected
Poems,
2004–2010
,
by
Szilárd
Borbély,
translated
by
Ottilie
Mulzet
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- From Final Matters, Sequences, Book One: Sequences of Holy Week
- From Final Matters, Sequences, Book Two: Sequences of Amor and Psyche
- From Final Matters, Sequences, Book Three: Hasidic Sequences
- From To the Body: Odes and Legends
- Notes
- Credits
- Translator’s Acknowledgments
- Translator’s Afterword
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