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Adverse Genres in Fernando Pessoa (Hardcover)
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Adverse Genres in Fernando Pessoa (Hardcover)
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This book is an introduction to and interpretation of the world of
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), one of the most fascinating and
complex figures in European literary modernism and the avant-garde.
Raised in South Africa and writing much of his literary work in
English, Pessoa nevertheless almost never left the city of Lisbon
after returning in 1905. Pessoa is known for abolishing the
authorial self and for dividing his writings among a large number
of other personalities - the heteronyms - who wrote through him,
each in a completely different style. The theory of 'adverse
genres' introduced in this book aids understanding of his
paradoxical and contradictory use of genres. Through the invented
'coterie of authors,' Pessoa explored mixed writing by changing the
relationship between form and content, authorship and text. Adverse
Genres describes how Pessoa selected genres from the European
tradition (Ricardo Reis' 'Horatian' odes, Alvaro de Campos' worship
of Whitman, Alberto Caeiro's pastoral and metaphysical, Bernardo
Soares' philosophical diary), into which he put a different and
incongruent content taken from modernist, contemporary themes. By
creating anomalies between form and content, or authors and texts,
Pessoa gives new life and definition to traditional historical
genres for a modernist age. In doing so, he enhances the normal
expressive potential of each genre by incorporating
uncharacteristic content and questioning authorship. Pessoa uses
this procedure in his 1907 short story, 'A Very Original Dinner' in
the 'Cancioneiro' or collected poems written under the name
Fernando Pessoa; in his love letters to Ophelia Queiros; in his
1922 story 'The Adventure of the Anarchist Banker;' in his
collection of quatrains derived from Portuguese popular verse; and,
finally, in his problematic non-existence as 'the man who never
was,' in Jorge de Sena's expression, who exchanged a normal life
for an entirely literary world of the imagination. This book
addresses Pessoa's desire to be an entire literature, a new
literary history, as it were, full of diverse authors and styles,
as if they were characters or roles in a dramatic theater of the
self in literary modernism.
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