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In a Bucolic Land
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In a Bucolic Land

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A moving, posthumous collection of elegies and eclogues that meditate on nature, landscape, and history, by a great Hungarian poet.

Szilard Borbely 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 Borbelys, outsiders and class enemies, were shunned. In a Bucolic Land, Borbely’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. Ottilie Mulzet’s English translation conveys the full power of a writer of whom Laszl Krasznahorkai has said, He was a poet-a great poet-who shatters us.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Country
United States
Date
11 January 2022
Pages
160
ISBN
9781681375915

A moving, posthumous collection of elegies and eclogues that meditate on nature, landscape, and history, by a great Hungarian poet.

Szilard Borbely 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 Borbelys, outsiders and class enemies, were shunned. In a Bucolic Land, Borbely’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. Ottilie Mulzet’s English translation conveys the full power of a writer of whom Laszl Krasznahorkai has said, He was a poet-a great poet-who shatters us.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Country
United States
Date
11 January 2022
Pages
160
ISBN
9781681375915