The presence of Pessoa : English, American, and Southern African literary responses
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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'sMensagem(Message) and the modernist novella0 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
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Fernando
George
Monteiro
Pessoa - Language
- English
- Series
- Studies in Romance languages (Lexington Ky.) 43
- ISBN
- 9780813156873
- Release date
- 2015
