Fernando Pessoa and Co: Selected Poems - Softcover

Pessoa, Fernando

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802136273 ISBN 13: 9780802136275

Verlag: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999

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“One of the great originals of modern European poetry and Portugal’s premier modernist.”—Washington Post

“Pessoa has had many English-language interpreters but none better than Richard Zenith.”—New York Review of Books

Fernando Pessoa—a poet who lived most of his life in Lisbon, Portugal, and who died in obscurity there— is now recognized as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. In a newly updated and expanded edition of his celebrated 1998 Fernando Pessoa & Co., which Booklist hailed as “a beautiful one-volume course in the soul of the twentieth century,” translator and biographer Richard Zenith brings together Pessoa’s most memorable poetic works. Present here is poetry by Pessoa’s famous trio of alter egos—Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, and Álvaro de Campos—as well as a varied selection of poems signed by Pessoa’s own name. From spare minimalism to revolutionary exuberance, Fernando Pessoa & Co. showcases the seminal poet’s timeless and innovative work in all of its extraordinary depth and poetic passion.

“Like Beckett, Pessoa is extremely funny. . . . His work is loaded with delights.”—Guardian

“Pessoa would be Shakespeare if all that we had of Shakespeare were the soliloquies of Hamlet, Falstaff, Othello and Lear and the sonnets. His legacy is a set of explorations, in poetic form, of what it means to inhabit a human consciousness.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review

 

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Translator Richard Zenith has collected in a single volume all the major poetry of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), "one of the most extraordinary poetic talents the century has produced" ("Microsoft Network's Reading Forum").

Reseña del editor

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) -- a poet who lived most of his life in Lisbon, Portugal, and who died in obscurity there -- has in recent years gained international recognition as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Now Richard Zenith has collected in a single volume all the major poetry of "one of the most extraordinary poetic talents the century has produced" (Microsoft Network's Reading Forum).

Fernando Pessoa was as much a creator of personas as he was of poetry, prose, and criticism. He wrote under numerous "heteronyms, " literary alter egos with fully fleshed identities and writing styles, who supported and criticized each other's work in the margins of his drafts and in the literary journals of the time. From spare minimalism to a revolutionary exuberance that recalls Leaves of Grass, Pessoa's oeuvre was radically new and anticipated contemporary literary concerns to an unnerving degree. The first comprehensive edition of Pessoa's poetry, in the English language, Fernando Pessoa & Co. is a work of extraordinary depth and poetic precision.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0802136273
• ISBN 13: 9780802136275
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
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