Fernando Pessoa: A Critical Introduction - Paperback

by Jerónimo Pizarro (Author)

A Critical Introduction proposes a new didactic and dynamic way of reading the great twentieth-century poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). The aim is to present a holistic vision of this complex poet, promoting his literary geniality in order to better understand his orthonymic-heteronymic poetry. A guiding motif is Pessoa's own Be as plural as the universe. In leading the reader through the poet's published literary work, Jerónimo Pizarro allows an intimate perspective, alongside an academic one, to better understand the workings of Pessoa's mind and life. Discussion centres on the dilemmas an editor faces when editing posthumously. A prime question revolves around the genesis of Pessoa's heteronyms and orthonyms. Understanding is revealed by a critical perspective on the unity that exists in all of Pessoa's literary work. Interpretations of the poems; explanation of the profundity of The Book of Disquiet; and his isms of Paulism, Caeirism, Intersectionism and Cessationism, are
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Author Biography

Dr. Jerónimo Pizarro, Professor at Universidad de los Andes, holder of the chair of Portuguese Studies of the Camões Institute in Colombia, and winner of the Eduardo Lourenço Award (2013), is responsible for most of the new editions and new series of texts by Fernando Pessoa published in Portugal since 2006. He is also a critic, a translator, and the editor-in-chief of the journal Pessoa Plural - A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies.