Antonio Pedro: Just a Story (Apenas uma narrative) - Couverture souple

Alonso, Claudia Pazos; Rodrigues, Bruno; Gray De Castro, Mariana

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1910572063 ISBN 13 : 9781910572061

Editeur : Aris & Phillips Ltd, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Portuguese António Pedro (1909 1966) was a cosmopolitan and multifaceted artist; one of the pioneers of surrealism in Portugal, both as a visual artist and as a writer. He was involved in the London surrealist group in 1944-5. Today Pedro is perhaps best remembered for his steadfast opposition to Salazar s long dictatorship, initially as a BBC radio broadcaster in wartime London and, on his return to Portugal, as the director of TEP (Teatro Experimental do Porto) throughout the 1950s. Just a Story (1942) comes at the halfway point in his forward-looking transnational trajectory. Pedro lived in Brazil in 1940-1 and, while largely ignored up to now, his experience of modernity in the tropics included encounters with major Brazilian cultural players such as Mário de Andrade, Jorge de Lima, Jorge Amado, and Antônio Cândido. Just a Story stands, up to a point, as a miniature Portuguese equivalent of the groundbreaking Brazilian rhapsody Macunaíma: an iconoclastic novella or a novel, if we adopt the label Pedro bestowed on his creation simply because he felt like it . Illustrated by the author, it combines surrealist tendencies with the irreverent streak that so frequently distinguished Brazilian modernism. Written predominantly from a first-person perspective, this surreal tale follows the amazing adventures of the protagonist, including his birth in the rural North of Portugal, his picaresque migration to the city, his uncanny love tryst with alluring Lulu, and his final homecoming and mind-blowing demise. To read it is to step into a child-like world of dreams and playful delight in the nonsensical. Yet, at the same time, this thought-provoking work also invites the reader on a meaningful, profound journey through human experience and reality.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Aris & Phillips Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1910572063
• ISBN 13: 9781910572061
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 116