Berlin-Hamlet |
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| Author:
| Borbély, Szilárd
Borbély, Szilárd |
| Translator:
| Mulzet, Ottilie |
| Series title: | NYRB Poets Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-68137-054-5 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2016 |
| Publisher: | New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $29.99 |
Book Description:
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Berlin-Hamlet evokes a stroll through one of the phantasmagoric shopping arcades described in Walter Benjamin's
Passagen-Werk-but instead of the delirious image fragments of nineteenth-century European culture, we pass by disembodied scraps of written text, remnants as ghostly as their authors- primarily Franz Kafka but also Benjamin himself or the Hungarian poets Attila J zsef or Ern Szep. Paraphrases and reworked quotations, drawing upon the vanished prewar legacy,...
More Description Berlin-Hamlet evokes a stroll through one of the phantasmagoric shopping arcades described in Walter Benjamin's Passagen-Werk-but instead of the delirious image fragments of nineteenth-century European culture, we pass by disembodied scraps of written text, remnants as ghostly as their authors- primarily Franz Kafka but also Benjamin himself or the Hungarian poets Attila J zsef or Ern Szep. Paraphrases and reworked quotations, drawing upon the vanished prewar legacy, particularly its German Jewish aspects, appear in sharp juxtaposition with images of post-1989 Berlin frantically rebuilding itself in the wake of German unification.