{"product_id":"in-a-bucolic-land-9781681375915","title":"In a Bucolic Land","description":"\u003cb\u003eA moving, posthumous collection of elegies and eclogues that meditate on nature, landscape, and history, by a great Hungarian poet.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSzilárd 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. \u003ci\u003eIn a Bucolic Land\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-13300685\"\u003eSzilárd Borbély\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/11\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 4.40w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681375915\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1681375915\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE018000\"\u003eEuropean | German\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE023040\"\u003eSubjects \u0026amp; Themes | Places\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSzilárd József Borbély\u003c\/b\u003e (1963-2014) was born in Fehérgyarmat in eastern Hungary, and studied Hungarian philology and literature at the University of Debrecen, where he was an associate professor. A recognized authority on Hungarian literature of the late baroque period as well as an author, Borbély was awarded several literary prizes in Hungary, culminating in the highly prestigious Palladium Prize in 2005. His novels \u003ci\u003eHalotti pomp\u003c\/i\u003e (\"The Splendors of Death\") and \u003ci\u003eThe Dispossessed\u003c\/i\u003e were hailed universally as one of the most important Hungarian works of literature of the early millennium. His poetry collection \u003ci\u003eBerlin-Hamlet\u003c\/i\u003e, also translated by Ottilie Mulzet, is available from NYRB Poets. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOttilie Mulzet\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator of poetry and prose, as well as a literary critic. She has worked as the English-language editor of the internet journal of the Hungarian Cultural Center in Prague, and in 2014 she received the Best Translated Book Award for her translation of László Krasznahorkai's novel \u003ci\u003eSeiobo There Below\u003c\/i\u003e. She is based in Prague.","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42693176590573,"sku":"9781681375915","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_dfa05b5d-0181-4a13-a167-1f943faf8012.jpg?v=1649857698","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/in-a-bucolic-land-9781681375915","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}