Three Poems from Transylvania, by Gizella Hervay Poetry [email protected] Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:03 Photo by AVTG / Stock.adobe.comTranslator’s note: Gizella Hervay (1934–1982) is sometimes referred to as the “Ingeborg Bachmann of Transylvania.” Mostly neglected by criticism during her short and tragic life, the poet started publishing in the most important Hungarian-language magazines in Romania in the 1960s. Married to the most important postwar Hungarian-language modernist of Romania, Domokos Szilágyi—who, as it was revealed after 1990, was blackmailed into collaborating with the secret police in 1957 and committed suicide in 1976—and influenced by his writing, Hervay developed an increasingly splintered poetic language that mapped the precarity of creaturely (and, unusually for the time, women’s) existence under the totalitarian regime of mandatory optimism. This poetry of state-surveyed, bureaucratized, corralled-in solitude reached its peaks in the 1977 “oratorio” for three voices, Free Fall (Zuhanások), as well as in the volumes published in the late 1970s and posthumously. Following their divorce and Szilágyi’s suicide, Hervay also lost their only son, Kobak, aged sixteen, killed in the catastrophic 1977 earthquake in Bucharest. In 1976 she immigrated to Hungary; under the weight of the double tragedy affecting her life, her sense of existential itinerancy intensified. She committed suicide in 1982. A selection of her... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'
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