Ottilie Mulzet Book order (chronological)

The National Book Award winner's breathtaking new novel about neo-Nazis, particle physics, and Johann Sebastian Bach

<b>An award-winning translator presents selections from the haunting final volumes of a leading voice in contemporary Hungarian poetry</b> Szil�rd Borb�ly, 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 Borb�ly's verse by bringing together generous selections from his last two books, <i>Final Matters</i> and <i>To the Body</i>. 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, Borb�ly 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."

Berlin-Hamlet, publikovaný poprvé v roce 2003, je šestou sbírkou Szilárda Borbélyho, básníka považovaného maďarskou literární scénou za jednu z vedoucích osobností první generace autorů, která se objevila po pádu komunismu. Borbély je vysoce ceněným kritikem, profesorem maďarské barokní a klasicistní literatury Debrecínské univerzity a autorem, jenž vytváří působivou poetiku a co víc, zastává jednoznačný estetický a morální postoj, který mu zajišťuje místo mezi předními intelektuály formovanými zkušeností střední Evropy. V angličtině.