Discurso sobre o Filho-da-puta.

PIMENTA, Alberto.

Published by Editorial Teorema

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8°, original illustrated wrappers. Illustration and diagrams in text. in very good condition. Author's signed and dated presentation inscription on half-title: "Para Vitor Silva Tavares, // com um abraço amigo // Alberto Pimenta / Nov. 77". 59 pp., (2 ll. advt.). *** FIRST EDITION of the author's first book of prose, one of his most successful works. Porbase records a second edition, Lisbon: Regra do Jogo, 1979; a third, Lisbon: Regra do Jogo, 1981; a fourth [?], São Paulo: Codecri, 1983, a sixth, Coimbra: Centelha, 1987; a seventh, Porto: Mortas, 1995, an eighth [?], Lisbon: Teorema, 2000; and a so-called sixth edition, Porto: Rainho & Neves, 2010. Copac adds an edition of Lisbon: Fenda, 1991, while OCLC mentions one of Lisbon: Fenda, 1983, and another of Rio de Janeiro : Achiamé, 2000.Born in Porto in 1937, the concrete poet, essayist, performer, and university professor Alberto Pimenta has collaborated in various German, Italian, and Portuguese literary reviews. He has been an important vanguard figure in Portuguese literature. Saraiva and Lopes (p. 1086) refer to Albert Pimenta as "um dos mais originais e extravagantes poetas que se revelaram nos anos de 70." From 1960 to 1977 he taught at Heidelberg.Provenance: Vitor Silva Tavares (1937-2015) a native of Lisbon, was a journalist, author, cinematographer, critic, translator, editor, and founder of the influential publishing house Editora &etc.*** See Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed., 2001), pp. 1086, 1138; Álvaro Manuel Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 380; Maria Irene Ramalho in Biblos, IV, 144-8; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, VI, 451-2. Porbase locates only a single copy of this first edition, in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Jisc locates a single copy of this first edition at British Library. KVK (51 databases searched), in addition to the copy cited by Porbase, locates another at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut-Berlin. Only the Coimbra: Centelha, 1987 edition located in Hollis. Only the second edition, 1979 located in Orbis.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Discurso sobre o Filho-da-puta.
• Publisher: Editorial Teorema
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)