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In a bucolic land
- Title
- In a bucolic land / Szilárd Borbély ; translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet.
- Author
- Borbély, Szilárd, 1964-2014
- Publication
- New York, NY : New York Review of Books, [2021]
- ©2021
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Mulzet, Ottilie
- Description
- 137 pages; 18 cm.
- Summary
- "Szilárd Borbély's is one of the most searching and powerful poetic voices to emerge in the twenty-first century. In a Bucolic Land was Borbély's final work, completed but left unpublished at the time of his premature death in 2014.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 Borbély 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 Borbély'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 László Krasznahorkai has said, "He was a poet-a great poet-who shatters us.""--
- "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."
- Series Statement
- New York Review Books : Poets
- Uniform Title
- Bukolikatájban. English
- New York Review Books poets.
- Alternative Title
- Bukolikatájban.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Translations.
- Poetry.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- JFC 22-62
- ISBN
- 9781681375915
- 1681375915
- LCCN
- 2021011951
- OCLC
- 1240413745
- Author
- Borbély, Szilárd, 1964-2014, author.
- Title
- In a bucolic land / Szilárd Borbély ; translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : New York Review of Books, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New York Review Books : PoetsNew York Review Books poets.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Mulzet, Ottilie, translator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Borbély, Szilárd, 1963-2014. In a bucolic land New York City : New York Review Books, 2021. 9781681375922 (DLC) 2021011952
- Research Call Number
- JFC 22-62