Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies, 28. 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dedicated to Fernando Pessoa as English reader and writer, including unpublished material from the author’s archive and private library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thematic focus on Pessoa, this latest volume of Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies features sections dedicated to unpublished materials, new transcriptions of texts that Pessoa originally wrote in English, and some of his verse translations into Portuguese.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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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford Universicy) José Luís Jobim (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro I Universidade Federal Fluminense) Maria Alzira Seixo (Universidade de Lisboa) ADV I SORY BOARD

Vítor Manuel de Aguiar e Silva (Universidade do Minha) Gonzalo Aguilar (Universidade de Buenos Aires) Luiz Felipe de Alencastro (Universidade de Paris- Sorbonne) Maria Aparecida Ferreira de Andrade Salgueiro (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) Vincenzo Arsillo (Universidade de Veneza) Dário Borim (University ofMassachusetts Dartmouth) Flávio Carneiro (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) Patrício Ferrari (Universidade de Lisboa) Ana Paula Ferreira (Universicy o f Minnesota) Kenneth David Jackson (Yale University) Anna M. Klobucka (University ofMassachusetts Dartmouth) Johannes Kretschmer (Universidade Federal Fluminense) Alexander Luz (Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro) Nataniel Ngomane (Universidade Eduardo Mondlane) Horst Nitschack (Universidade do Chile) Marcus Vinicius Nogueira Soares (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) Carlinda Fragale Pate Nufiez (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) lUta Olivieri-Godet (Universidade de Rennes I!)

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