Kafka’s Son
$38.39
- Hardcover
184 pages
- Release Date
14 March 2024
Summary
A posthumously published Hungarian masterpiece that reflects on fragmented lives.
Born in 1963, Szilárd Borbély emerged as one of the most important poets of post-communist Europe, exploring the themes of grief, memory, and trauma in his critically acclaimed work. Following the murder of his mother during a burglary in 2000, and the subsequent breakdown and death of his father, Borbély suffered from post-traumatic depression and tragically ended his own life in 2014.<…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781803092683 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1803092688 |
| Author: | Ottilie Mulzet, Szilárd Borbély |
| Publisher: | Seagull Books London Ltd |
| Imprint: | Seagull Books London Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 184 |
| Release Date: | 14 March 2024 |
| Weight: | 399g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 20mm |
| Series: | The Hungarian List |
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Critics Review
“Kafka’s tortured relationship with his father is well known to the author’s readers, but Borbély adds to the lore by exploring the limits of how much anyone can understand another, whether a father and son, or a reader and writer, as Mulzet suggests in an illuminating afterword about Borbély’s long-held identification with Kafka. Kafka fans will enjoy this.” * Publishers Weekly *
About The Author
Ottilie Mulzet
Szilárd Borbély was an authority on Hungarian literature of the late Baroque period as well as a writer and was widely considered to be one of the most important European poets of the post-Communist period.
Ottilie Mulzet was awarded the National Book Award for Translated Literature for her translation of László Krasznahorkai’s Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming in 2019.
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