Fernando Pessoa as English Reader and Writer

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dedicated to Fernando Pessoa as English reader and writer, including unpublished material from the author’s archive and private library

In addition to the thematic focus on Pessoa, this latest volume of Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies features sections dedicated to unpublished materials, new transcriptions of texts that Pessoa originally wrote in English, and some of his verse translations into Portuguese. Patricio Ferrari shares responsibility with Jerónimo Pizarro and Antonio Cardiello for the digitization of Fernando Pessoa’s Private Library (online since 2010) and the publication of two bilingual books: Fernando Pessoa’s Private Library (2010) and Fernando Pessoa’s Objects (2013). Ferrari is responsible as well for five Pessoa editions, including the first critical edition of Poèmes français  (2014), Eu sou uma antologia: 136 autores fictícios [I am an anthology: 136 fictitious authors] (2013), co-edited with Pizarro, and Argumentos para filmes [Film arguments] (2011), co-edited with Claudia J. Fischer. Jerónimo Pizarro is professor and chair of Portuguese studies at the Camões Institute at the University of the Andes in Colombia. He has contributed seven volumes to the critical edition of Fernando Pessoa’s works, published by INCM. He is co-editor with Steffen Dix of Portuguese Modernisms in Literature and the Visual Arts. Pizarro won the Eduardo Lourenço Prize in 2013 and is editor in chief of Tinta-da-China’s Colecção Pessoa.

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Now that Pessoa’s digitized private library is available online, the importance of English to Pessoa, particularly in his formative years, has become indisputable. The writings of English authors served as the bedrock from which his poetic sensibility emerged, developed, and soared. In fact, a significant number of Pessoa’s writings both in English and in Portuguese (including those attributed to his heteronyms and to other literary personae) were significantly informed by these literary sources. Fernando Pessoa as English Reader and Writer provides ample evidence of his lifelong relationship with the English language.

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