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The presence of Pessoa : English, American, and Southern African literary responses

By Fernando , Monteiro , George; Pessoa

Book information

Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Year
2015
ISBN
0-8131-2053-5, 9780813120539, 9780813156873, 0813156874
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10031401 bytes)
Series
Studies in Romance languages (Lexington Ky.) 43
Pages
180\180
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
1888-1935 -- Appr1888-1935 -- Appreciation -- Africa1888-1935 -- Appreciation -- Great Britain. PessoaAmerican literature -- 20th century -- History andFernandoSouthern. Pessoa

Description

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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