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Berlin-Hamlet

Berlin-Hamlet

Borbély, Szilárd
Mulzet, Ottilie

Paperback

Series: Nyrb Poets

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $14.00

ISBN10: 1681370549
ISBN13: 9781681370545
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Nov 15 2016
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.30 Width: 4.60 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
Shortlisted for the 2017 National Translation Award in Poetry and the 2017 Best Translated Book Award in Poetry

Before his tragic death, Szilárd Borbély had gained a name as one of Europe's most searching new poets. Berlin-Hamlet--one of his major works--evokes a stroll through the phantasmagoric shopping arcades described in Walter Benjamin'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 József or Erno Szép. 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.

This English-only edition does not include the poems in their original language.

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