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Six poems
Gabor Schein
Gábor Schein (b. in Budapest,
1969) is a Hungarian poet,
novelist, playwright, critic and
scholar. His writing explores
the
symptomatology
of
historical amnesia, of tradition
understood as both passing-on
and betrayal; it is characterized
by a relentless exploration of, and critical attitude to, the
political valences of language. Schein is Associate Professor
of Modern Hungarian Literature in Budapest; he has also
taught modern German literature and aesthetics, and
published extensively on the history of 20th century
Hungarian and German literature. A notably beautiful essay
of his on the topography of trauma in Budapest was
recently published in
Music and Literature
,
here .Poems translated from Hungarian by Erika Mihálycsa.