Berlin-Hamlet (NYRB Poets)

Berlin-Hamlet (NYRB Poets)

Shortlisted for the 2017 National Translation Award in Poetry and the 2017 Best Translated Book Award in Poetry

Before his tragic death, SzilÃ¡rd BorbÃ©ly had gained a name as one of Europe's most searching new poets. Berlin-Hamletâ€”one of his major worksâ€”evokes a stroll through the phantasmagoric shopping arcades described in Walter Benjaminâ€™s Arcades Project, 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 JÃ³zsef or Erno SzÃ©p. 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 reunification.
Country USA
Brand New York Review Books
Manufacturer NYRB Poets
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781681370545
Color Silver
ReleaseDate 2016-11-15
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781681370545

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