{"product_id":"9781681370552","title":"Berlin-Hamlet","description":"\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2017 National Translation Award in Poetry and the 2017 Best Translated Book Award in Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore his tragic death, Szilárd Borbély had gained a name as one of Europe's most searching new poets. \u003ci\u003eBerlin-Hamlet\u003c\/i\u003e—one  of his major works—evokes a stroll through the phantasmagoric shopping  arcades described in Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, 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 József or Erno Szép. 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  reunification.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47139756376304,"sku":"9781681370552","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781681370552_p0.jpg?v=1763692728","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781681370552","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}