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An undisputed giant of twentieth-century Portuguese letters, writer
and literary critic Jorge de Sena (1919--1978) spent the most
Productive decades of his life away from Portugal, teaching at the
University of Wisconsin--Madison and the University of California,
Santa Barbara. In the essays gathered in this collection, George
Monteiro deftly weaves together his readings of Sena's poetry and
prose, both literary and critical, with evidence drawn from the
deep well of Sena's biographical archive, focusing in particular on
his Brazilian and U.S. years. This expansive overview of Sena's
unparalleled career, intended to commemorate the centenary of the
writer's birth, is also a tribute to Monteiro's own remarkably
voluminous and far-reaching body of work on the intersection of
Portuguese and Anglo-American literary studies.
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Stormy Isles - An Azorean Tale (Paperback)
Vitorino Nemesio; Edited by Francisco Cota Fagundes; Translated by Francisco Cota Fagundes
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Stormy Isles, originally published in Portuguese in 1944 and set in
the Azores between 1917 and 1919, focuses on the vivacious and
sharp Margarida, who, at twenty years of age, is a model of
feminist aspirations and the paragon of her generation. A member of
the elite, she foregoes some of the entitlements of her class and
struggles with the morals of the bourgeois society in which her
life unfolds. Narrated in realist and poetic language as a series
of interconnected tales within a larger story, this completely
revised translation of Stormy Isles provides a rich, vivid portrait
of the Azores in the early twentieth century.
Equating Vitorino Nemesio to "Azoreanity," Universality,
Iridescence, Confluence, and Eroticism, draws inspiration from the
content of the essays herein included and will not surprise anyone
familiar with Nemesio's non-posthumous works, with the possible
exception of the very last of the lexemes, "eroticism." Nemesio's
oeuvre, starting with the collections of short stories Paco do
Milhafre (1924) and Misterio do Paco do Milhafre (1949), and
extending to the poetical collections La Voyelle Promise (1935) and
Festa Redonda (1950), to the novel Mau Tempo no Canal (1944) and
the travelogue Corsario das Ilhas (1956), encompasses a range of
subjects profoundly rooted in the Azorean archipelago. At the same
time--and here, bbesides Mau Tempo no Canal, we must emphasize the
poems of Nem Toda a Noite a Vida (1952) and O Verbo e a Morte
(1959)--the thematic and formal scope of Nemesio's oeuvre does in
no way distance itself from the totality (and, to the extent that
the word is valid, centrality) of Portugese culture and, as well,
from the western Great Tradition of which it is an inextricable
part.
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