The Presence of Pessoa by George Monteiro
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.
GEORGE MONTEIRO is professor emeritus of English and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University. He is author of Fernando Pessoa and Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Literature. FRANCISCO COTA FAGUNDES is professor emeritus of Portuguese in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780813120539 |
| ISBN 10 | 0813120535 |
| Title | The Presence of Pessoa |
| Author | George Monteiro |
| Series | Studies In Romance Languages Ser |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The University Press of Kentucky |
| Year published | 1998-04-09 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
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