Berlin-Hamlet
Descriere
Berlin-Hamlet evokes a stroll through one of the phantasmagoric shopping arcades described in Walter Benjamin s Passagen-Werk but instead of the delirious image fragments of nineteenth-century European culture, we pass by disembodied scraps of written text, remnants as ghostly as their authors: primarily Franz Kafka but also Benjamin himself or the Hungarian poets Attila Jozsef or Ern Szep. Paraphrases and reworked quotations, drawing upon the vanished prewar legacy, particularly its German Jewish aspects, appear in sharp juxtaposition with images of post-1989 Berlin frantically rebuilding itself in the wake of German unification."
Despre autor
Szilárd József Borbély (1 noiembrie 1963 – 19 februarie 2014) a fost un academic, scriitor și poet maghiar. The Poetry Foundation îl identifică ca „unul dintre cei mai importanți poeți aparuți în Ungaria post-1989”, care a utilizat mai multe genuri literare și s-a ocupat preponderent de teme precum durerea, memoria și trauma.
