|
Showing 1 - 5 of
5 matches in All Departments
Here, in Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari's splendid new
translations, are the complete poems of Alberto Caeiro, the
imaginary "heteronym" coterie created by Fernando Pessoa, the
Portuguese modernist master. Pessoa conceived Caeiro around 1914
and may have named him loosely after his friend, the poet Mario de
Sa-Carrneiro. What followed was a collection of some of Fernando
Pessoa's greatest poems, grouped under the titles The Keeper of
Sheep, The Shepherd in Love, and Uncollected Poems. This imaginary
author was a shepherd who spent most of his life in the
countryside, had almost no education, and was ignorant of most
literature; yet he (Pessoa) wrote some of the most beautiful and
profound poems in Portuguese literature. This edition of The
Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro is based on the magnificent
Portuguese Tinta-da-China edition, published in Lisbon in 2016, and
contains an illuminating introduction by the Portuguese editors
Jeronimo Pizarro and Patricio Ferrari, some facsimiles of the
original Portuguese texts, and prose excerpts about Caeiro and his
work written by Fernando Pessoa well as his other heteronyms Alvaro
de Campos and Ricardo Reis, and other fictitious authors such as
Antonio Mora and I. I. Crosse.
A Critical Introduction proposes a new didactic and dynamic way of
reading the great twentieth-century poet Fernando Pessoa
(18881935). The aim is to present a holistic vision of this complex
poet, promoting his literary geniality in order to better
understand his orthonymic-heteronymic poetry. A guiding motif is
Pessoas own Be as plural as the universe. In leading the reader
through the poets published literary work Jeronimo Pizarro allows
an intimate perspective, alongside an academic one, to better
understand the workings of Pessoas mind and life. Discussion
centres on the dilemmas an editor faces when editing posthumously.
A prime question revolves around the genesis of Pessoas heteronyms
and orthonyms. Understanding is revealed by a critical perspective
on the unity that exists in all of Pessoas literary work.
Interpretations of the poems; explanation of the profundity of The
Book of Disquiet; and his isms of Paulism, Caeirism,
Intersectionism and Sensationism, are discussed and analysed. The
issue of Pessoas astrological predictions his birth year and the
effects of this event on Portuguese national history is debated. A
chapter is devoted to the effect that translating Omar Khayyams
Rubaiyat had on the poet. The work contains eleven texts written by
Pessoa in English (including an autobiographical note from 1935), a
substantive dual language bibliography, and is highly illustrated
with facsimiles of the poets own written material. A Critical
Introduction is essential reading for all scholars and students of
Pessoas literary output and life circumstances. The work has been
written to appeal to cultural studies (arts and aesthetics)
enthusiasts in general at both undergraduate and postgraduate
level, but given the engagement of new critical material it also
provides a structured resource for future research.
A Critical Introduction proposes a new didactic and dynamic way of
reading the great twentieth-century poet Fernando Pessoa
(18881935). The aim is to present a holistic vision of this complex
poet, promoting his literary geniality in order to better
understand his orthonymic-heteronymic poetry. A guiding motif is
Pessoas own Be as plural as the universe. In leading the reader
through the poets published literary work Jeronimo Pizarro allows
an intimate perspective, alongside an academic one, to better
understand the workings of Pessoas mind and life. Discussion
centres on the dilemmas an editor faces when editing posthumously.
A prime question revolves around the genesis of Pessoas heteronyms
and orthonyms. Understanding is revealed by a critical perspective
on the unity that exists in all of Pessoas literary work.
Interpretations of the poems; explanation of the profundity of The
Book of Disquiet; and his isms of Paulism, Caeirism,
Intersectionism and Cessationism, are discussed and analysed. The
issue of Pessoas astrological predictions his birth year and the
effects of this event on Portuguese national history is debated. A
chapter is devoted to the effect that translating Omar Khayyams
Rubaiyat had on the poet. The work contains eleven texts written by
Pessoa in English (including an autobiographical note from 1935), a
substantive dual language bibliography, and is highly illustrated
with facsimiles of the poets own written material. A Critical
Introduction is essential reading for all scholars and students of
Pessoas literary output and life circumstances. The work has been
written to appeal to cultural studies (arts and aesthetics)
enthusiasts in general at both undergraduate and postgraduate
level, but given the engagement of new critical material it also
provides a structured resource for future research.
The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando
Pessoa's greatest literary achievement. An "autobiography" or
"diary" containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms,
and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal
questions. Now, for the first time the texts are presented
chronologically, in a complete English edition by master translator
Margaret Jull Costa. Most of the texts in The Book of Disquiet are
written under the semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares, an assistant
bookkeeper. This existential masterpiece was first published in
Portuguese in 1982, forty-seven years after Pessoa's death. A
monumental literary event, this exciting, new, complete edition
spans Fernando Pessoa's entire writing life.
Eighteen short essays by the most distinguished international
scholars examine Pessoa's influences, his dialogues with other
writers and artistic movements, and the responses his work has
generated worldwide. Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa claimed that
he did not evolve, but rather travelled. This book provides a state
of the art panorama of Pessoa's literary travels, particularly in
the English-speaking world. Its eighteen short, jargon-free essays
were written by the most distinguished Pessoa scholars across the
globe. They explore the influence on Pessoa's thinking of such
writers as Whitman and Shakespeare, as well as his creative
dialogues with figuresranging from decadent poets to the dark
magician Aleister Crowley, and, finally, some of the ways in which
he in turn has influenced others. They examine many different
aspects of Pessoa's work, ranging from the poetry of the heteronyms
to the haunting prose of The Book of Disquiet, from esoteric
writings to personal letters, from reading notes to unpublished
texts. Fernando Pessoa's Modernity Without Frontiers is a valuable
introduction to this multifaceted modern master, intended for both
students of modern literature and general readers interested in one
of its major figures.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|