Szilárd Borbély

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Szilárd József Borbély (born November 1, 1963 in Fehérgyarmat , Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county ; died February 19, 2014 in Debrecen ) was a Hungarian literary scholar and poet .

Szilárd Borbély (2013)

Life

Szilárd Borbély came from a poor ("half-Jewish") family, and his father's grandfather perished in Auschwitz . He grew up in a village and after completing his military service studied Hungarian language and literature at the Lajos Kossuth University in Debrecen . In 1989 he became an assistant at the Chair for Ancient Hungarian Literature and specialized in Hungarian literature from the baroque and early 19th century. In his study A Vanitatum vanitas szövegvilágáról (1995) he examined the poetry of Ferenc Kölcsey . In 1998 he received his doctorate.

In 1988 he published his first volume of poetry, Adatok . Borbély named Kafka , János Pilinszky , Miklós Mészöly , Péter Nádas and Péter Esterházy as points of reference for his poetic work.

Borbély worked as a translator from German and English, including the authors Rumjana Zacharieva , Monika Rinck , Hendrik Jackson , Robert Gernhardt and Durs Grünbein . Most recently he prepared the translation of Klaus-Michael Bogdal's Europe invents the Gypsies into Hungarian, for which he was granted a “Paul Celan Fellowship”. He has received numerous Hungarian literary prizes, including the Tibor Déry Prize, Attila József Prize and the Füst Milán Prize.

His mother was killed and his father seriously injured when his parents' house was broken into; In Halotti pompa (2004), Borbély worked on the events poetically with references to familiar baroque forms. In 2013 he published his first novel, which, according to Borbély, is “biographically based, that is, limited fiction”. Borbély suffered from depression and committed suicide on February 19, 2014 suicide .

Works (selection)

  • Adatok . Debrecen: KLTE, 1988.
  • A bábu arca / Történet . Budapest: Széphalom, 1992.
  • Hosszú nap el . Long poem. Pécs: Jelenkor, 1993.
  • A Vanitatum vanitas szövegvilágáról . Társaság: Kölcsey, 1995.
  • Mint. minden. Alkalom . Budapest: Balassi, 1995.
  • Ami helyet . Pécs: Jelenkor, 1999.
  • Berlin / Hamlet . Pécs: Jelenkor, 2003.
  • Halotti pompa: Szekvenciák . Pozsony: Kalligram, 2004.
  • Árkádiában: történetek az irodalom történetéből . Debrecen: Csokonai, 2006.
  • Pompa funebris: sekvence . Zblov: Opus, 2006.
  • Egy gyilkosság mellékszálai . Budapest: Vigilia, 2008.
  • with Michael Donhauser : Poems bilingual . Budapest; Vienna: Kortina 2009.
  • Hungarikum-e a lira? : esszek, kritikak . Budapest: Nemzeti Kulturalis Alap, 2012.
  • Szemünk elött vonulnak el: negy drama . Budapest: Palatinus, 2011.
  • Nincstelenek: már elment a Mesijás? Novel. Pozsony: Kalligram Kiadó, 2013.
    • The destitute: is the Messiah gone yet? . Novel. Two essays by the author are attached. From the Hungarian and with an afterword by Heike Flemming and Lacy Kornitzer . Berlin: Suhrkamp 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-42450-6 .
  • Kafka's son. Prose . From the Hungarian and with an afterword by Heike Flemming and Laszlo Kornitzer. Berlin: Suhrkamp, ​​2017 (fragment from the estate)

literature

Web links

Commons : Szilárd Borbély  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ilma Rakusa : On the death of the poet Szilárd Borbély. “It is over” in: NZZ , February 25, 2014
  2. ↑ a b c d e Szilárd Borbély , at the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin (ilb), 2007
  3. ↑ Judith von Sternburg: We go and silent , review of Die Mittellosen , in: Frankfurter Rundschau , October 7, 2014
  4. ↑ Carmen Eller: Every child is only a dumb servant , review, in: Die Literäre Welt , November 29, 2014, p. 6
  5. ^ Judith von Sternburg: Szilárd Borbély "The Penniless": We go and remain silent. in Frankfurter Rundschau online, October 7, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Borbély, Szilárd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borbély Szilárd József (Hungarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian literary scholar and poet
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Fehérgyarmat , Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 2014
Place of death Debrecen