
The Complete Works of Alvaro de Campos
Fernando Pessoa(Author)
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Will be published approx. on 4. July 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
480 pages
978-0-8112-2988-3 (ISBN)
Description
Alvaro de Campos is one of the most influential heteronyms created by Portugal's great modernist writer Fernando Pessoa. According to Pessoa, Campos was born in Tavira (Algarve) in 1890 and studied mechanical engineering in Glasgow, although he never managed to complete his degree. In his own day, Campos was celebrated-and slandered-for his vociferous poetry imbued with a Whitman-inspired free verse, his praise of the rise of technology and his polemical views that appeared in manifestos, interviews and essays. Here in Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari's translations are the complete poems of Campos. This edition is based on the Portuguese Tinta-da-china edition and includes an illuminating introduction about Campos by the Portuguese editors Jeronimo Pizarro and Antonio Cardiello, facsimiles of original manuscripts and a generous selection of Campos's prose texts.
Reviews / Votes
"As searing as Rilke or Mandelstam." -- The New York Times "Pessoa's amazing personality is as beguiling and mysterious as his unique poetic output." -- William Boyd "Arguably, the four greatest poets in the Portuguese language were all Pessoa using different names." -- NPRMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 207 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8112-2988-3 (9780811229883)
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Persons
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), the Portuguese poet, literary critic, and essayist, is one of the most significant literary figures of the twentieth century. He wrote not only under his own name but under over a hundred others (including Alexander Search, Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, and Bernardo Soares). Antonio Cardiello is a researcher in Philosophy and Comparative Literature at NOVA University Lisbon's Institute of Philosophy. Jeronimo Pizarro is a professor at the Universidad de los Andes and editor-in-chief of Pessoa Plural-A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies. Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson have translated the work of Lucio Cardoso, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, and Clarice Lispector, among others. They live in England. A poet, translator, and editor, Patricio Ferrari has translated the works of Fernando Pessoa and Alejandra Pizarnik, among others.
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