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Beyond the Cordons

Selected Poems

Gábor Schein
2024 Released
188 Pages
3-4 Hours
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Contra Mundum PressISBN 9781940625713
Translated by Erika Mihálycsa, Ottilie Mulzet
Gábor Schein is the highly acclaimed author of over nine volumes of poetry and five novels, as well as the recipient of many prizes, including the Attila József Prize, the Artisjus Prize, and the Prize of the Society of Hungarian Authors.

Beyond the Cordons is a selection of his poetic work over the past twenty-five years, but particularly drawing on his seminal collections Night, Travel [Éjszaka, utazás, 2011] and Greetings from the Interior of the Continent [Üdvözlet a kontinens belsejéből, 2017] both of which serve as poetic time capsules of the decades following Hungary's "regime change" of 1989.

Schein's urban sensibilities are palpably and keenly attuned to the grit and debris of Budapest streets - as well as the ever-present echoes of its sinister past, its buried histories - and yet allegorically, his poetry soars above place and time. He writes with the perspective of an insider navigating not only the immediate present of corruption and cynicism, but with a view to examining its affective residue on the people, and even the buildings.

Erika Mihálycsa

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Erika Mihálycsa is Associate Professor at Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj, where she teaches twentieth- and twenty-first-century British and Irish literature. She has published mainly in the field of Joyce and Beckett studies, on various aspects of literary and visual modernism, and translation studies. With Jolanta Wawrzycka she edited Retranslating Joyce for the 21st Century for the series European Joyce Studies (2020) and is the author of 'A wretchedness to defend' Reading Beckett's letters (2022); her articles have appeared in Word and Image, Joyce Studies Annual, European Joyce Studies, Estudios Irlandeses and numerous edited volumes, among them The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art (2024). She edited Rareș Moldovan's new, annotated Romanian translation of Ulysses (2023) and herself translated works by Beckett, Patrick McCabe, Brian Friel and (with Gábor Csizmadia) Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds (2009) into Hungarian.

Ottilie Mulzet

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