Author: Mário de Sá-Carneiro
Publisher: Landmark
ISBN: 8580700655
Category : Fiction
Languages : pt-BR
Pages : 216
Book Description
A CONFISSÃO DE LÚCIO: LÚCIO'S CONFESSION, publicada pelo poeta Mário de Sá-Carneiro em 1914, um ano antes do aparecimento do primeiro número da revista Orpheu, é uma novela que parece apresentar, através da fragmentação, a existência de questões que ficam sem resposta. A repetição de silêncios intervalares, os espelhamentos intertextuais como forma de dar consistência a essa outra voz, o consciente de que tudo aquilo é material com que se constrói a obra de arte e cuja linguagem é plástica e maleável, criadora dum sentido provisório e impossível de fixar-se. É considerada por José Régio como a obra-prima de entre as novelas de Mário de Sá-Carneiro, onde estão presentes três de suas obsessões dominantes: o suicídio, o amor pervertido e o anormal avançando até a loucura. A CONFISSÃO DE LÚCIO: LÚCIO'S CONFESSION é uma das obras mais importantes de Mário de Sá-Carneiro por conter três das suas obsessões dominantes: o suicídio, o amor pervertido e o anormal a avançar até à loucura, através da história dum triângulo entre Lúcio, Marta, e Ricardo – onde os estudiosos veem em Ricardo o outro de Lúcio, e Marta a ponte de ligação entre eles. Apresentado sob a forma de uma confissão autobiográfica, um romance policial, a novela inicia-se com uma breve introdução, em que o narrador, Lúcio, ao assumir-se como autor, justifica o seu objetivo: confessar-se inocente após ter cumprido os dez anos de prisão a que fora condenado pelo assassínio dum amigo, Ricardo de Loureiro. O narrador promete dizer toda a verdade, mesmo quando ela é inverossímil, sobre essa morte ocorrida em circunstâncias misteriosas e sem testemunhas, mas considerada judicialmente como um crime passional. Por ser um texto de vanguarda, já que Mário de Sá-Carneiro empenhou-se na busca de novos significantes numa ruptura com o modelo centrado no código princípio-meio-fim, esta obra de ficção continua aberta a novos estudos e interpretações. Nesta obra, ao incitar as suas personagens na busca duma transcendência distorcida, Sá-Carneiro cria uma atmosfera de exacerbado lirismo. Capaz de acrescentar um prazeroso sabor ao narrar o inarrável, mesmo no leitor que possui poucas fibras de sensibilidade ele é capaz de produzir um turbilhão interior próximo ao palpitar acelerado do coração quando em êxtase.
A Confissão de Lúcio: Lúcio's Confession
Author: Mário de Sá-Carneiro
Publisher: Landmark
ISBN: 8580700655
Category : Fiction
Languages : pt-BR
Pages : 216
Book Description
A CONFISSÃO DE LÚCIO: LÚCIO'S CONFESSION, publicada pelo poeta Mário de Sá-Carneiro em 1914, um ano antes do aparecimento do primeiro número da revista Orpheu, é uma novela que parece apresentar, através da fragmentação, a existência de questões que ficam sem resposta. A repetição de silêncios intervalares, os espelhamentos intertextuais como forma de dar consistência a essa outra voz, o consciente de que tudo aquilo é material com que se constrói a obra de arte e cuja linguagem é plástica e maleável, criadora dum sentido provisório e impossível de fixar-se. É considerada por José Régio como a obra-prima de entre as novelas de Mário de Sá-Carneiro, onde estão presentes três de suas obsessões dominantes: o suicídio, o amor pervertido e o anormal avançando até a loucura. A CONFISSÃO DE LÚCIO: LÚCIO'S CONFESSION é uma das obras mais importantes de Mário de Sá-Carneiro por conter três das suas obsessões dominantes: o suicídio, o amor pervertido e o anormal a avançar até à loucura, através da história dum triângulo entre Lúcio, Marta, e Ricardo – onde os estudiosos veem em Ricardo o outro de Lúcio, e Marta a ponte de ligação entre eles. Apresentado sob a forma de uma confissão autobiográfica, um romance policial, a novela inicia-se com uma breve introdução, em que o narrador, Lúcio, ao assumir-se como autor, justifica o seu objetivo: confessar-se inocente após ter cumprido os dez anos de prisão a que fora condenado pelo assassínio dum amigo, Ricardo de Loureiro. O narrador promete dizer toda a verdade, mesmo quando ela é inverossímil, sobre essa morte ocorrida em circunstâncias misteriosas e sem testemunhas, mas considerada judicialmente como um crime passional. Por ser um texto de vanguarda, já que Mário de Sá-Carneiro empenhou-se na busca de novos significantes numa ruptura com o modelo centrado no código princípio-meio-fim, esta obra de ficção continua aberta a novos estudos e interpretações. Nesta obra, ao incitar as suas personagens na busca duma transcendência distorcida, Sá-Carneiro cria uma atmosfera de exacerbado lirismo. Capaz de acrescentar um prazeroso sabor ao narrar o inarrável, mesmo no leitor que possui poucas fibras de sensibilidade ele é capaz de produzir um turbilhão interior próximo ao palpitar acelerado do coração quando em êxtase.
Publisher: Landmark
ISBN: 8580700655
Category : Fiction
Languages : pt-BR
Pages : 216
Book Description
A CONFISSÃO DE LÚCIO: LÚCIO'S CONFESSION, publicada pelo poeta Mário de Sá-Carneiro em 1914, um ano antes do aparecimento do primeiro número da revista Orpheu, é uma novela que parece apresentar, através da fragmentação, a existência de questões que ficam sem resposta. A repetição de silêncios intervalares, os espelhamentos intertextuais como forma de dar consistência a essa outra voz, o consciente de que tudo aquilo é material com que se constrói a obra de arte e cuja linguagem é plástica e maleável, criadora dum sentido provisório e impossível de fixar-se. É considerada por José Régio como a obra-prima de entre as novelas de Mário de Sá-Carneiro, onde estão presentes três de suas obsessões dominantes: o suicídio, o amor pervertido e o anormal avançando até a loucura. A CONFISSÃO DE LÚCIO: LÚCIO'S CONFESSION é uma das obras mais importantes de Mário de Sá-Carneiro por conter três das suas obsessões dominantes: o suicídio, o amor pervertido e o anormal a avançar até à loucura, através da história dum triângulo entre Lúcio, Marta, e Ricardo – onde os estudiosos veem em Ricardo o outro de Lúcio, e Marta a ponte de ligação entre eles. Apresentado sob a forma de uma confissão autobiográfica, um romance policial, a novela inicia-se com uma breve introdução, em que o narrador, Lúcio, ao assumir-se como autor, justifica o seu objetivo: confessar-se inocente após ter cumprido os dez anos de prisão a que fora condenado pelo assassínio dum amigo, Ricardo de Loureiro. O narrador promete dizer toda a verdade, mesmo quando ela é inverossímil, sobre essa morte ocorrida em circunstâncias misteriosas e sem testemunhas, mas considerada judicialmente como um crime passional. Por ser um texto de vanguarda, já que Mário de Sá-Carneiro empenhou-se na busca de novos significantes numa ruptura com o modelo centrado no código princípio-meio-fim, esta obra de ficção continua aberta a novos estudos e interpretações. Nesta obra, ao incitar as suas personagens na busca duma transcendência distorcida, Sá-Carneiro cria uma atmosfera de exacerbado lirismo. Capaz de acrescentar um prazeroso sabor ao narrar o inarrável, mesmo no leitor que possui poucas fibras de sensibilidade ele é capaz de produzir um turbilhão interior próximo ao palpitar acelerado do coração quando em êxtase.
Lúcio's Confession
Author: Mário de Sá-Carneiro
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
When in 1916, Mario de Sa-Carneiro committed suicide in Paris at the age of 26, he left behind him an extraordinary body of work, which dealt obsessively with the problems of identity, madness and solitude. Lucio's Confession is the first of his novels to be translated into English. A brilliant and remarkable short novel of great eroticism and enigmatic beauty Lucio's Confession is set in the fin de siecle artist circles of Paris and Lisbon. It deals with the friendship of two young Portuguese poets, Lucio and Ricardo de Loureiro, and their search for identity through love. When the bachelor Ricardo returns to Lisbon, to everyone's surprise he is accompanied by a wife. She, Marta, seems the perfect partner, and establishes an immediate rapport with his close friend Lucio on the latter's return from Paris. Soon they become lovers. Despite the passionate nature of their relationship, Lucio suspects that Marta is sharing her favours with Ricardo's other close friends. Something is not quite right. Where did this mysterious woman meet Ricardo, and, indeed who is she? Why does she never speak of her past and why is Ricardo conniving at her infidelity? Lucio's attempts to unravel this mystery have tragic and terrible consequences.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
When in 1916, Mario de Sa-Carneiro committed suicide in Paris at the age of 26, he left behind him an extraordinary body of work, which dealt obsessively with the problems of identity, madness and solitude. Lucio's Confession is the first of his novels to be translated into English. A brilliant and remarkable short novel of great eroticism and enigmatic beauty Lucio's Confession is set in the fin de siecle artist circles of Paris and Lisbon. It deals with the friendship of two young Portuguese poets, Lucio and Ricardo de Loureiro, and their search for identity through love. When the bachelor Ricardo returns to Lisbon, to everyone's surprise he is accompanied by a wife. She, Marta, seems the perfect partner, and establishes an immediate rapport with his close friend Lucio on the latter's return from Paris. Soon they become lovers. Despite the passionate nature of their relationship, Lucio suspects that Marta is sharing her favours with Ricardo's other close friends. Something is not quite right. Where did this mysterious woman meet Ricardo, and, indeed who is she? Why does she never speak of her past and why is Ricardo conniving at her infidelity? Lucio's attempts to unravel this mystery have tragic and terrible consequences.
Embodying Pessoa
Author: Anna Klobucka
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802091989
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The multifaceted and labyrinthine oeuvre of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (18881935) is distinguished by having been written and published under more than seventy different names. These were not mere pseudonyms, but what Pessoa termed 'heteronyms,' fully realized identities possessed not only of wildly divergent writing styles and opinions, but also of detailed biographies. In many cases, their independent existences extended to their publication of letters and critical readings of each other's works (and those of Pessoa 'himself'). Long acclaimed in continental Europe and Latin America as a towering presence in literary modernism, Pessoa has more recently begun to receive the attention of an English-speaking public. Embodying Pessoa responds to this new growth of interest. The collection's twelve essays, preceded by a general introduction and grouped into four themed sections, apply a range of current interpretative models both to the more familiar canon of Pessoa's output, and to less familiar texts in many cases only recently published. As a whole, this work diverges from traditional Pessoa criticism by testifying to the importance of corporeal physicality in his heteronymous experiment and to the prominence of representations of (gendered) sexuality in his work.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802091989
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The multifaceted and labyrinthine oeuvre of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (18881935) is distinguished by having been written and published under more than seventy different names. These were not mere pseudonyms, but what Pessoa termed 'heteronyms,' fully realized identities possessed not only of wildly divergent writing styles and opinions, but also of detailed biographies. In many cases, their independent existences extended to their publication of letters and critical readings of each other's works (and those of Pessoa 'himself'). Long acclaimed in continental Europe and Latin America as a towering presence in literary modernism, Pessoa has more recently begun to receive the attention of an English-speaking public. Embodying Pessoa responds to this new growth of interest. The collection's twelve essays, preceded by a general introduction and grouped into four themed sections, apply a range of current interpretative models both to the more familiar canon of Pessoa's output, and to less familiar texts in many cases only recently published. As a whole, this work diverges from traditional Pessoa criticism by testifying to the importance of corporeal physicality in his heteronymous experiment and to the prominence of representations of (gendered) sexuality in his work.
Lisbon Revisited
Author: Rhian Atkin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351560026
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Twentieth-century Portugal saw dramatic political and social change. The monarchy was abolished, and a republic installed (1910), soon giving way to a long-lasting dictatorship (1926); a transition to democracy (1974) led to membership of the European Union (1986). But what do we know of how people lived during these periods? And how did men, in particular, respond to the changes taking place in society? In this illuminating and broad-ranging study, Rhian Atkin uses as case studies the work of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), Luis de Sttau Monteiro (1926-93) and Jose Saramago (1922-2010) in order to examine the relationship between socio-political change and the construction and performance of masculinities in the urban environment of Lisbon over the course of the last century.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351560026
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Twentieth-century Portugal saw dramatic political and social change. The monarchy was abolished, and a republic installed (1910), soon giving way to a long-lasting dictatorship (1926); a transition to democracy (1974) led to membership of the European Union (1986). But what do we know of how people lived during these periods? And how did men, in particular, respond to the changes taking place in society? In this illuminating and broad-ranging study, Rhian Atkin uses as case studies the work of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), Luis de Sttau Monteiro (1926-93) and Jose Saramago (1922-2010) in order to examine the relationship between socio-political change and the construction and performance of masculinities in the urban environment of Lisbon over the course of the last century.
Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History
Author: Robert Aldrich
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000158888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 611
Book Description
Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to the Mid-Twentieth Century is a comprehensive and fascinating survey of the key figures in gay and lesbian history from classical times to the mid-twentieth century. Among those included are: * Classical heroes - Achilles; Aeneas; Ganymede * Literary giants - Sappho; Christopher Marlowe; Arthur Rimbaud; Oscar Wilde * Royalty and politicians - Edward II; King James I; Horace Walpole; Michel de Montaigne. Over the course of some 500 entries, expert contributors provide a complete and vivid picture of gay and lesbian life in the Western world throughout the ages.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000158888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 611
Book Description
Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to the Mid-Twentieth Century is a comprehensive and fascinating survey of the key figures in gay and lesbian history from classical times to the mid-twentieth century. Among those included are: * Classical heroes - Achilles; Aeneas; Ganymede * Literary giants - Sappho; Christopher Marlowe; Arthur Rimbaud; Oscar Wilde * Royalty and politicians - Edward II; King James I; Horace Walpole; Michel de Montaigne. Over the course of some 500 entries, expert contributors provide a complete and vivid picture of gay and lesbian life in the Western world throughout the ages.
Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History Vol.1
Author: Robert Aldrich
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113472215X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to the Mid-Twentieth Century is a comprehensive and fascinating survey of the key figures in gay and lesbian history from classical times to the mid-twentieth century. Among those included are: * Classical heroes - Achilles; Aeneas; Ganymede * Literary giants - Sappho; Christopher Marlowe; Arthur Rimbaud; Oscar Wilde * Royalty and politicians - Edward II; King James I; Horace Walpole; Michel de Montaigne. Over the course of some 500 entries, expert contributors provide a complete and vivid picture of gay and lesbian life in the Western world throughout the ages.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113472215X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to the Mid-Twentieth Century is a comprehensive and fascinating survey of the key figures in gay and lesbian history from classical times to the mid-twentieth century. Among those included are: * Classical heroes - Achilles; Aeneas; Ganymede * Literary giants - Sappho; Christopher Marlowe; Arthur Rimbaud; Oscar Wilde * Royalty and politicians - Edward II; King James I; Horace Walpole; Michel de Montaigne. Over the course of some 500 entries, expert contributors provide a complete and vivid picture of gay and lesbian life in the Western world throughout the ages.
Portuguese Modernisms
Author: Steffen Dix
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351553593
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
For a more encompassing and stimulating picture of Modernism seen as a movement of the 20th century, a broad spectrum of work across many countries we must explore its diversity. Portuguese Modernism manifested itself both in visual art and in literature, and made a vigorous contribution to this time of profound cultural change. Indeed, the sociocultural transformations that marked the early 20th century in Portugal are still current. This volume provides a critical guide for students and teachers, contributed by an array of scholars with unparalleled knowledge of the period, its artists and its writers. Steffen Dix is Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon; Jeronimo Pizarro is Research Fellow at the Linguistics Centre, University of Lisbon.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351553593
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
For a more encompassing and stimulating picture of Modernism seen as a movement of the 20th century, a broad spectrum of work across many countries we must explore its diversity. Portuguese Modernism manifested itself both in visual art and in literature, and made a vigorous contribution to this time of profound cultural change. Indeed, the sociocultural transformations that marked the early 20th century in Portugal are still current. This volume provides a critical guide for students and teachers, contributed by an array of scholars with unparalleled knowledge of the period, its artists and its writers. Steffen Dix is Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon; Jeronimo Pizarro is Research Fellow at the Linguistics Centre, University of Lisbon.
Pessoa: A Biography
Author: Richard Zenith
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1324090774
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
Like Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce, Richard Zenith’s Pessoa immortalizes the life of one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers. Nearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) remains one of our most enigmatic writers. Believing he could do “more in dreams than Napoleon,” yet haunted by the specter of hereditary madness, Pessoa invented dozens of alter egos, or “heteronyms,” under whose names he wrote in Portuguese, English, and French. Unsurprisingly, this “most multifarious of writers” (Guardian) has long eluded a definitive biographer—but in renowned translator and Pessoa scholar Richard Zenith, he has met his match. Relatively unknown in his lifetime, Pessoa was all but destined for literary oblivion when the arc of his afterlife bent, suddenly and improbably, toward greatness, with the discovery of some 25,000 unpublished papers left in a large, wooden trunk. Drawing on this vast archive of sources as well as on unpublished family letters, and skillfully setting the poet’s life against the nationalist currents of twentieth-century European history, Zenith at last reveals the true depths of Pessoa’s teeming imagination and literary genius. Much as Nobel laureate José Saramago brought a single heteronym to life in The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, Zenith traces the backstories of virtually all of Pessoa’s imagined personalities, demonstrating how they were projections, spin-offs, or metamorphoses of Pessoa himself. A solitary man who had only one, ultimately platonic love affair, Pessoa used his and his heteronyms’ writings to explore questions of sexuality, to obsessively search after spiritual truth, and to try to chart a way forward for a benighted and politically agitated Portugal. Although he preferred the world of his mind, Pessoa was nonetheless a man of the places he inhabited, including not only Lisbon but also turn-of-the-century Durban, South Africa, where he spent nine years as a child. Zenith re-creates the drama of Pessoa’s adolescence—when the first heteronyms emerged—and his bumbling attempts to survive as a translator and publisher. Zenith introduces us, too, to Pessoa’s bohemian circle of friends, and to Ophelia Quieroz, with whom he exchanged numerous love letters. Pessoa reveals in equal force the poet’s unwavering commitment to defending homosexual writers whose books had been banned, as well as his courageous opposition to Salazar, the Portuguese dictator, toward the end of his life. In stunning, magisterial prose, Zenith contextualizes Pessoa’s posthumous literary achievements—especially his most renowned work, The Book of Disquiet. A modern literary masterpiece, Pessoa simultaneously immortalizes the life of a literary maestro and confirms the enduring power of Pessoa’s work to speak prophetically to the disconnectedness of our modern world.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1324090774
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
Like Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce, Richard Zenith’s Pessoa immortalizes the life of one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers. Nearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) remains one of our most enigmatic writers. Believing he could do “more in dreams than Napoleon,” yet haunted by the specter of hereditary madness, Pessoa invented dozens of alter egos, or “heteronyms,” under whose names he wrote in Portuguese, English, and French. Unsurprisingly, this “most multifarious of writers” (Guardian) has long eluded a definitive biographer—but in renowned translator and Pessoa scholar Richard Zenith, he has met his match. Relatively unknown in his lifetime, Pessoa was all but destined for literary oblivion when the arc of his afterlife bent, suddenly and improbably, toward greatness, with the discovery of some 25,000 unpublished papers left in a large, wooden trunk. Drawing on this vast archive of sources as well as on unpublished family letters, and skillfully setting the poet’s life against the nationalist currents of twentieth-century European history, Zenith at last reveals the true depths of Pessoa’s teeming imagination and literary genius. Much as Nobel laureate José Saramago brought a single heteronym to life in The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, Zenith traces the backstories of virtually all of Pessoa’s imagined personalities, demonstrating how they were projections, spin-offs, or metamorphoses of Pessoa himself. A solitary man who had only one, ultimately platonic love affair, Pessoa used his and his heteronyms’ writings to explore questions of sexuality, to obsessively search after spiritual truth, and to try to chart a way forward for a benighted and politically agitated Portugal. Although he preferred the world of his mind, Pessoa was nonetheless a man of the places he inhabited, including not only Lisbon but also turn-of-the-century Durban, South Africa, where he spent nine years as a child. Zenith re-creates the drama of Pessoa’s adolescence—when the first heteronyms emerged—and his bumbling attempts to survive as a translator and publisher. Zenith introduces us, too, to Pessoa’s bohemian circle of friends, and to Ophelia Quieroz, with whom he exchanged numerous love letters. Pessoa reveals in equal force the poet’s unwavering commitment to defending homosexual writers whose books had been banned, as well as his courageous opposition to Salazar, the Portuguese dictator, toward the end of his life. In stunning, magisterial prose, Zenith contextualizes Pessoa’s posthumous literary achievements—especially his most renowned work, The Book of Disquiet. A modern literary masterpiece, Pessoa simultaneously immortalizes the life of a literary maestro and confirms the enduring power of Pessoa’s work to speak prophetically to the disconnectedness of our modern world.
Fernando Pessoa's Modernity Without Frontiers
Author: Mariana Gray de Castro
Publisher: Tamesis Books
ISBN: 1855662566
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Eighteen short essays by the most distinguished international scholars examine Pessoa's influences, his dialogues with other writers and artistic movements, and the responses his work has generated worldwide. Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa claimed that he did not evolve, but rather travelled. This book provides a state of the art panorama of Pessoa's literary travels, particularly in the English-speaking world. Its eighteen short, jargon-free essays were written by the most distinguished Pessoa scholars across the globe. They explore the influence on Pessoa's thinking of such writers as Whitman and Shakespeare, as well as his creative dialogues with figuresranging from decadent poets to the dark magician Aleister Crowley, and, finally, some of the ways in which he in turn has influenced others. They examine many different aspects of Pessoa's work, ranging from the poetry of the heteronyms to the haunting prose of The Book of Disquiet, from esoteric writings to personal letters, from reading notes to unpublished texts. Fernando Pessoa's Modernity Without Frontiers is a valuable introduction to this multifaceted modern master, intended for both students of modern literature and general readers interested in one of its major figures.
Publisher: Tamesis Books
ISBN: 1855662566
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Eighteen short essays by the most distinguished international scholars examine Pessoa's influences, his dialogues with other writers and artistic movements, and the responses his work has generated worldwide. Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa claimed that he did not evolve, but rather travelled. This book provides a state of the art panorama of Pessoa's literary travels, particularly in the English-speaking world. Its eighteen short, jargon-free essays were written by the most distinguished Pessoa scholars across the globe. They explore the influence on Pessoa's thinking of such writers as Whitman and Shakespeare, as well as his creative dialogues with figuresranging from decadent poets to the dark magician Aleister Crowley, and, finally, some of the ways in which he in turn has influenced others. They examine many different aspects of Pessoa's work, ranging from the poetry of the heteronyms to the haunting prose of The Book of Disquiet, from esoteric writings to personal letters, from reading notes to unpublished texts. Fernando Pessoa's Modernity Without Frontiers is a valuable introduction to this multifaceted modern master, intended for both students of modern literature and general readers interested in one of its major figures.
Sphinx
Author: Henrique Maximiano Coelho Neto
Publisher: Modern Language Association
ISBN: 1603296247
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
At his boardinghouse in Rio de Janeiro, the Englishman James Marian is seen as handsome but eccentric. Then another boarder learns Marian's secret: a fusion of a female head and a male body, Marian is the creation of a surgeon with occult powers. Despite his wealth and mysterious abilities, Marian is unable to live fully as either a man or a woman, traveling the world in order to repress his sexual desire and withdraw from society. Sphinx explores the binaries of science and magic, body and spirit, male and female, attraction and horror, presenting its sexually ambiguous protagonist with sympathy. Ornately descriptive, this 1908 neo-gothic novel exemplifies the era's taste for the sensual and the fantastic. With echoes of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, it stands as a classic of Brazilian science fiction.
Publisher: Modern Language Association
ISBN: 1603296247
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
At his boardinghouse in Rio de Janeiro, the Englishman James Marian is seen as handsome but eccentric. Then another boarder learns Marian's secret: a fusion of a female head and a male body, Marian is the creation of a surgeon with occult powers. Despite his wealth and mysterious abilities, Marian is unable to live fully as either a man or a woman, traveling the world in order to repress his sexual desire and withdraw from society. Sphinx explores the binaries of science and magic, body and spirit, male and female, attraction and horror, presenting its sexually ambiguous protagonist with sympathy. Ornately descriptive, this 1908 neo-gothic novel exemplifies the era's taste for the sensual and the fantastic. With echoes of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, it stands as a classic of Brazilian science fiction.