Mário de Sá-Carneiro, A Cosmopolitan Modernist

Simon Park

ISBN 10: 3034318855 / ISBN 13: 9783034318853

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Nov 2016, 2016

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Neuware -Although he committed suicide at the age of twenty-five, Mário de Sá-Carneiro left behind a rich corpus of texts that is inventive, playful, even daring. The first collection in English to be dedicated to his work, this volume brings together scholars from Portugal, Brazil, and the USA to reassess Sá-Carneirös contribution to Portuguese and European Modernism(s). In the book, established researchers and younger scholars delve into the complexities and paradoxes of his work, exploring not only the acclaimed novella Luciös Confession, but also his poetry, short fiction, and correspondence. Each essay engages in the necessary task of placing Sá-Carneirös work in a wider literary and artistic context, bringing back to his texts the creative energy of early twentieth-century Europe. Plural in their methods, the essays propose multiple lenses through which to tackle key aspects of Sá-Carneirös żuvre: his aesthetic and artistic influences and preoccupations; his negotiations/performances of identity; and the ways in which his work emerges in dialogue with other Modernist authors and how they in turn engage with his work. Though he is sometimes overshadowed by his more famous friend and artistic comrade, Fernando Pessoa, this collection shows just how much one misses, if one overlooks Sá-Carneiro and other writers of the Orpheu generation.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 208 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mário de Sá-Carneiro, A Cosmopolitan Modernist
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Nov 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3034318855
• ISBN 13: 9783034318853
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 225W x 150H x 12D millimeters 225 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 12 millimeters depth
• Weight: 300 grams

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Synopsis

Although he committed suicide at the age of twenty-five, Mário de Sá-Carneiro left behind a rich corpus of texts that is inventive, playful, even daring. The first collection in English to be dedicated to his work, this volume brings together scholars from Portugal, Brazil, and the USA to reassess Sá-Carneiro’s contribution to Portuguese and European Modernism(s). In the book, established researchers and younger scholars delve into the complexities and paradoxes of his work, exploring not only the acclaimed novella Lucio’s Confession, but also his poetry, short fiction, and correspondence. Each essay engages in the necessary task of placing Sá-Carneiro’s work in a wider literary and artistic context, bringing back to his texts the creative energy of early twentieth-century Europe. Plural in their methods, the essays propose multiple lenses through which to tackle key aspects of Sá-Carneiro’s œuvre: his aesthetic and artistic influences and preoccupations; his negotiations/performances of identity; and the ways in which his work emerges in dialogue with other Modernist authors and how they in turn engage with his work. Though he is sometimes overshadowed by his more famous friend and artistic comrade, Fernando Pessoa, this collection shows just how much one misses, if one overlooks Sá-Carneiro and other writers of the Orpheu generation.

About the Author

Fernando Beleza is Lecturer in Portuguese at the University of New Hampshire.

Simon Park is Camőes Teaching Fellow in Renaissance Portuguese at the University of Oxford and College Lecturer in Portuguese at Merton College, Oxford.