{"product_id":"final-matters-9780691182421","title":"Final Matters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, PEN America\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Ottilie Mulzet, Winner of the Tibor Déry Prize, Tibor Déry Foundation\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Any reader will find a mine full of treasure within \u003ci\u003eFinal Matters\u003c\/i\u003e, and every reader of poetry should have a copy of this excellent translation of Borbély's masterful work.\"\u003cb\u003e---Bruce Arlen Wasserman, \u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The poetry of \u003ci\u003eFinal Matters\u003c\/i\u003e is a tremendous achievement, and shows that Borbély should be considered not just among the great writers of post-Soviet Europe, but also of contemporary Judaism.\"\u003cb\u003e---Daniel Kraft, \u003ci\u003eJewish Currents\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFinal Matters\u003c\/i\u003e is Borbely's 'painted bleeding'; the poetic craft and rhetorical strategies employed in the collection allow him to keep hidden the unspeakable personal trauma whilst at the same time revealing the questions this and other such acts of extreme violence ask of us all. . . . At times, Borbely devastates, but the material is never gratuitous, however heartbreaking: and there is always, somewhere, a shred of faith, of hope, hard won—he is a poet who writes against oblivion.\"\u003cb\u003e---Tony Flynn, \u003ci\u003eHigh Window\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The title of this book gives a powerful clue as to its contents. For what Szilárd Borbély has given us here is a book of death. In line after line of spare and devastating poetry, he goes into the heart of darkness, and invites us, with an eery calm, to go there with him. Once you have done so, you will not be the same again.\"\u003cb\u003e---Barney Bardsley, \u003ci\u003eHungarian Literature Online\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ottilie Mulzet . . . [is] the translator of \u003ci\u003eFinal Matters: ­Selected Poems, 2004-2010\u003c\/i\u003e by Szilárd Borbély. Borbély’s mother was murdered by a couple of crazed robbers. Some poems work through that tragedy toward a larger meditation on death and life. In others, with startling ­images drawn from documentary materials, Borbély writes mystical lyrics, polytheistic parables and Hasidic sequences too powerful to forget. Like Japan’s wondrous Motoyuki Shibata, ­Ottilie Mulzet has become a translator with a following. I’m one of those committed to reading anything she takes up.\"\u003cb\u003e---Forrest Gander, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eFinal Matters\u003c\/i\u003e by Szilárd Borbély and translated by Ottie Mulzet] is stirring and unlike any other book I have read, and the bilingual format is important — as it preserves the original Hungarian, and fights against the trend of making it seem like all literature is written in English . . . Mulzet has undoubtedly brought readers a great gift by bringing these multi-layered poems into English.\"\u003cb\u003e---Aviya Kushner, \u003ci\u003eForward\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The posthumous \u003ci\u003eFinal Matters: Selected Poems, 2004–2010,\u003c\/i\u003e published last year in a bilingual edition and likewise translated by Mulzet into elegant and tonally astute English for Princeton’s Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation series (edited by Peter Cole, Richard Sieburth, and Rosanna Warren) is the last installment in this lifelong study of devastation.\"\u003cb\u003e---Carla Baricz, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403862548823,"sku":"9780691182421","price":43.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691182421.jpg?v=1730484744","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/final-matters-9780691182421","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}