Message - Couverture souple

Pessoa, Fernando; Griffin, Jonathan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 190570027X ISBN 13 : 9781905700271

Editeur : Shearsman Books, 2007

Synopsis

Message ("Mensagem") was the only book of verse in his own language that Pessoa saw through the press in his lifetime. On the face of it, a patriotic sequence steeped in 'Sebastianismo', the poems offer much more than this, the Kings and navigators of the Portugal's history standing as avatars of the poet's self, their explorations and heroic deeds projections of the poet's inner creative life. Although Pessoa is famous for the many heteronyms under which he composed verse in wildly different styles, this volume was published under his own name (the 'orthonym', as he defined it) and it remains one of his great masterpieces. This edition brings Jonathan Griffin's fine translation, originally published by the Menard Press in 1992, back into print, as part of Shearsman's Pessoa edition.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Fernando Pessoa is one of the great poets of the 20th Century, and is still something of a mystery to readers outside Portugal and Brazil, where his work has been elevated to classic status. Most puzzling for his readers, perhaps, is the fact that Pessoa wrote under a series of of other names-heteronyms, as he called them-and confusingly also under the 'orthonym' Fernando Pessoa, who is not the same person as the man born with that name. The major poetic heteronyms are Caeiro, Campos and Ricardo Reis, but Pessoa had a whole range of others: journalists, prose-writers, essayists, as well as two English poets in the form of Charles Robert Anon and Alexander Search, heteronyms used by Pessoa before the break-through year of 1914, when Reis, Caeiro and Campos all came into existence. Little of his work was published in book form during his lifetime: two slim volumes of English verse and the mature collection Mensagem (Message), but he left a trunk full of manuscripts and fragments-some 25,000 all told-and these have been mined by scholars ever since.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Shearsman Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 190570027X
• ISBN 13: 9781905700271
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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