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Un Libro Muy Original / A Very Original Book
A diferencia de la obra de otros autores ficcionales creados por Fernando Pessoa, la obra de Alexander Search ha sido poco difundida fuera de Portugal, e incluso en este país solo se han publicado algunos de sus textos.
Poemas, ensayos, traducciones y manuscritos son algunos de los elementos que componen esta antología y muestran a Search como autor de una obra prolífica y muy original.
Edición bilingüe y notas: Natalia Jerez Quintero
Poemas, ensayos, traducciones y manuscritos son algunos de los elementos que componen esta antología y muestran a Search como autor de una obra prolífica y muy original.
Edición bilingüe y notas: Natalia Jerez Quintero
255 pages, Unknown Binding
First published September 1, 2014
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Fernando Pessoa
1,252 books6,375 followersFernando António Nogueira Pessoa was a poet and writer.
It is sometimes said that the four greatest Portuguese poets of modern times are Fernando Pessoa. The statement is possible since Pessoa, whose name means ‘person’ in Portuguese, had three alter egos who wrote in styles completely different from his own. In fact Pessoa wrote under dozens of names, but Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos were – their creator claimed – full-fledged individuals who wrote things that he himself would never or could never write. He dubbed them ‘heteronyms’ rather than pseudonyms, since they were not false names but “other names”, belonging to distinct literary personalities. Not only were their styles different; they thought differently, they had different religious and political views, different aesthetic sensibilities, different social temperaments. And each produced a large body of poetry. Álvaro de Campos and Ricardo Reis also signed dozens of pages of prose.
The critic Harold Bloom referred to him in the book The Western Canon as the most representative poet of the twentieth century, along with Pablo Neruda.
It is sometimes said that the four greatest Portuguese poets of modern times are Fernando Pessoa. The statement is possible since Pessoa, whose name means ‘person’ in Portuguese, had three alter egos who wrote in styles completely different from his own. In fact Pessoa wrote under dozens of names, but Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos were – their creator claimed – full-fledged individuals who wrote things that he himself would never or could never write. He dubbed them ‘heteronyms’ rather than pseudonyms, since they were not false names but “other names”, belonging to distinct literary personalities. Not only were their styles different; they thought differently, they had different religious and political views, different aesthetic sensibilities, different social temperaments. And each produced a large body of poetry. Álvaro de Campos and Ricardo Reis also signed dozens of pages of prose.
The critic Harold Bloom referred to him in the book The Western Canon as the most representative poet of the twentieth century, along with Pablo Neruda.
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January 27, 2017
Es una recopilación de textos que solo sirve para experimentar a Alex, porque así como unidad imposible.
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