Additional Book Information
Series: NYRB Poets
ISBN: 9781681375915
Pages: 160
Publication Date: November 30, 2021
In a Bucolic Land
by Szilárd Borbély, translated from the Ottilie Mulzet
Praise
[Borbély’s] poetry is epoch-making.
—Péter Nádas
[Borbély] is considered one of the most important figures in contemporary Hungarian literature, having had an immense impact on the transformation of Hungarian poetry in the last decade, strongly influencing the conceptualization of poetry’s social role and linguistic-thematic possibilities. . . . Borbély’s poetry, prose, and essays try to bring the readers closer to the lives of those who cannot speak of their trauma or suffering. They can be uneducated and poor villagers, survivors of the Holocaust, women grieving after a miscarriage, or victims of terrible aggression. Through Borbély’s texts we readers become increasingly less cruel-hearted.
—László Bedecs, Asymptote