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Presence of Pessoa

Presence of Pessoa

Monteiro, George

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Romance Languages, Book 43

Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 0813120535
ISBN13: 9780813120539
Publisher: Univ Pr Of Kentucky
Published: Apr 9 1998
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.73 Depth: 8.81
Language: English

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is perhaps the most engaging of the great Western modernists of this century. Born in Portugal but raised and educated in southern Africa, Pessoa wrote poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

George Monteiro provides refreshingly new interpretations of Pessoa's Mensagem (Message) and the modernist novella 0 Banqueiro Anarquista (The Anarchist Banker). But he is primarily interested in tracing Pessoa's influence on a wide range of contemporary writers.

Among those Monteiro finds putting Pessoa's work to their own surprising--and sometimes comic--uses are Joyce Carol Oates, Allen Ginsberg, John Wain, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and earlier poets including Thomas Merton, Edouard Roditi, and Roy Campbell. In addition, the complete text of Campbell's pioneering biocritical study of Pessoa is published here for the first time.

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