Szilárd Borbély Explained

Szilárd József Borbély (in Hungarian pronounced as /ˈsilaːrd ˈborbeːj/); 1 November 1963 – 19 February 2014) was a Hungarian academic, writer and poet.^{[1] [2]} The Poetry Foundation identifies him as "one of the most important poets to emerge in post-1989 Hungary", who utilised several writing genres and predominantly dealt with subjects like grief, memory and trauma.^[3]

Borbély suffered from "post-traumatic depression", related to the murder of his mother during a burglary in 2000 and the subsequent breakdown and death of his father, who had also been attacked.^{[4] [5] [6]} Borbély committed suicide on 19 February 2014.^{[7] [8]}

Selected bibliography

Poetry

• Adatok (1988)
• Berlin-Hamlet (2003). Trans. Ottilie Mulzet (NYRB Poets, 2016)^[9]
• Halotti pompa (first edition, 2004; second edition, 2006; third edition, 2014)
• A testhez (2010)
• Final Matters: Selected Poems, 2004-2010, trans. Ottilie Mulzet (Princeton University Press, 2019). Selections from Halotti pompa and A testhez.
• Bukolikatájban (posthumous, 2022). In a Bucolic Land, trans. Ottilie Mulzet (NYRB Poets, 2022)

Prose

• Nincstelenek: Már elment a Mesijás? (2013). The Dispossessed, trans. Ottilie Mulzet (Harper Perennial, 2016)
• Kafka fia (2021). Kafka's Son, trans. Ottilie Mulzet (Seagull Books, 2023).

External links

• Search results for works of Barbély held at British Academic libraries at COPAC
• Diána Vonnák: Tracing Szilárd Borbély's poetry in "The Dispossessed" Asymptote Journal
• Articles at Élet és Irodalom (in Hungarian)
• An Interview with Szilárd Borbély Asymptote Journal

Notes and References

1. Web site: Szilárd Borbély Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin. 2015-11-11. 2014-12-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20141213061449/http://www.literaturfestival.com/archiv/teilnehmer/autoren/2007/szilard-borbely. dead.
2. Web site: Szilárd Borbély: “He was a poet – a great poet – who shatters us.” . Vincze . Dóra . 7 May 2022 . hlo.hu . Hungarian Literature Online . 19 February 2024 . 7 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220507121459/https://hlo.hu/portrait/szilard-borbely-he-was-a-poeta-great-poetwho-shatters-us.html . live .
3. Web site: Szilárd Borbély : The Poetry Foundation. www.poetryfoundation.org. 2015-11-11. 2015-11-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20151117021238/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/szilard-borbely. live.
4. Web site: Woo . David . Poetry Foundation . 2022-04-14 . Review: In a Bucolic Land . 2022-04-15 . en . 2022-04-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220415021939/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/reviews/157013/in-a-bucolic-land . live .
5. News: Szirtes . George . George Szirtes . 2016-11-25 . Deprivation: A Childhood in 1960s Hungary . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-04-15 . 0362-4331 . 2022-04-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220415021939/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/books/review/szilard-borbely-dispossessed-berlin-hamlet.html . live .
6. Web site: 2020-03-27 . Los Angeles Review of Books . 2022-04-15 . Los Angeles Review of Books . en . 2022-01-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220129023800/https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/studies-in-silence-on-szilard-borbelys-final-matters-selected-poems-2004-2010/ . live .
7. Web site: Rakusa . Ilma . Ilma Rakusa . 25 February 2014 . "Es sei zu Ende" . "It’s over" . 26 January 2021 . . de . 29 April 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150429015929/http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/feuilleton/literatur/es-sei-zu-ende-1.18250431 . live .
8. Web site: 7 October 2014 . Szilárd Borbély "Die Mittellosen": Wir gehen und schweigen . 26 January 2021 . . de . 31 January 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210131151032/https://www.fr.de/kultur/literatur/gehen-schweigen-11199351.html . live .
9. Web site: Foreign Rights - The Dispossessed Novel - Szilárd Borbély. 2015-11-11. 2015-11-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20151117024138/http://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/the_dispossessed-szilard_borbely_42450.html?d_view=english. live.