The Budapest File - Couverture souple

Szirtes, George

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 185224531X ISBN 13 : 9781852245313

Editeur : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

Although George Szirtes was born in Budapest, and spent his early childhood in Hungary before coming to England as a refugee, it wasn’t until 1984 that he began to write about his native city, its history and the experience of leaving it. Through all his books since it has grown into a theme to which he returns to time and again, a spectral place full of ‘voices, words, stenches, scents’ and desire ‘pulled like a tooth’. This book gathers together his poems on Hungarian themes, exploring universal issues of loss, danger and exile. The Budapest File is like no other book. Through these powerfully evocative poems, George Szirtes recreates a changing Budapest, from the city he remembered as a child, through the imaginative versions he created in exile, to the actual place he found on his return and after the fall of Communism. He writes as both an outsider, whose perspective is totally different from that of Hungarian writers translated into English, and as an insider, with an intimate knowledge and delicate understanding of a place which has always haunted his imagination. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

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À propos de l'auteur

George Szirtes was born in Budapest in 1948, and came to England with his family after the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. He was educated in England, training as a painter, and has always written in English. In recent years he has worked as a translator of Hungarian literature, producing editions of such writers as Ottó Orbán, Zsuzsa Rakovszky and Ágnes Nemes Nagy. He co-edited Bloodaxe’s Hungarian anthology The Colonnade of Teeth. His Bloodaxe poetry books include: The Budapest File (2000); An English Apocalypse (2001); Reel (2004), winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize; New & Collected Poems (2008) and The Burning of the Books and other poems (2009), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2009. Bad Machine (2013) was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2013. His latest collection, Mapping the Delta (2016), was the Poetry Book Society Choice for Winter 2016. A new collection, Fresh Out of the Sky, is forthcoming from Bloodaxe in 2021. Bloodaxe has also published his Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures, Fortinbras at the Fishhouses: Responsibility, the Iron Curtain and the sense of history as knowledge (2010), and John Sears’ critical study, Reading George Szirtes (2008). His memoir of his mother, The Photographer at Sixteen, was published by MacLehose Press in 2019. Szirtes lives in Norfolk and is a freelance writer, having retired from teaching at the University of East Anglia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 185224531X
• ISBN 13: 9781852245313
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible