A Centenary Pessoa (Aspects of Portugal S.) - Softcover

Pessoa, Fernando

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9781857543681: A Centenary Pessoa (Aspects of Portugal S.)

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ISBN 10: 1857543688 ISBN 13: 9781857543681

Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, 1997

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This volume includes a selection of Pessoa's poems and prose, a photo-biography, critical comment and two posthumous "interviews".

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Review:

"[Pessoa] may claim to be the greatest literary figure of modern times." --Roy Campbell, author, "The Flaming Terrapin" and "Broken Record"

"Pessoa is one of the evident giants in modern literature. To read him is to enter fascinating and urgent worlds." --George Steiner, author, "Language and Silence
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"The name of Fernando Pessoa demands to be listed with those of other great world-class artist born in the 1880s: Stravinsky, Picasso, Joyce, Braque, Le Corbusier . . . " --Roman Jakobson, author, "On Language"

About the Author:

Fernando Pessoa is considered the most important modern Portuguese author and one of the greatest literary figures of the 20th century. Eugenio Lisboa is an eminent poet, an essayist and a literary critic. His publications include standard works on Jose Regio and Jorge de Sena and critical studies of modernism in Portugal. L. C. Taylor was the director of the Gulbenkian Foundation the editor of Rose Macaulay's "They Went to Portugal, Too." Octavio Paz was a poet, essayist, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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