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Contra Mundum Press, paperback

Translated by: Gbor Schein, Erika Mihlycsa, and Ottilie Mulzet

Publication Date: December 20 2024

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Gbor Schein is the highly acclaimed author of over nine volumes of poetry and five novels, as well as the recipient of many prizes, including the Attila Jzsef Prize, the Artisjus Prize, and the Prize of the Society of Hungarian Authors.

Beyond the Cordons is a selection of his poetic work over the past twenty-five years, but particularly drawing on his seminal collections Night, Travel [jszaka, utazs, 2011] and Greetings from the Interior of the Continent [dvzlet a kontinens belsejbl, 2017] both of which serve as poetic time capsules of the decades following Hungarys regime change of 1989.

Scheins urban sensibilities are palpably and keenly attuned to the grit and debris of Budapest streets as well as the ever-present echoes of its sinister past, its buried histories and yet allegorically, his poetry soars above place and time. He writes with the perspective of an insider navigating not only the immediate present of corruption and cynicism, but with a view to examining its affective residue on the people, and even the buildings.