Fernando Pessoa Always Astonished (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Always AstonishedCondition: NewSubtitle: Selected ProseEAN: 9780872862289ISBN: 9780872862289Publisher: City Lights BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/12/1998Description: "After looking for him in the poems, we search for him in the prose. The pursuit of the Other in Pessoa's work is never-ending," writes Edwin Honig. Essential to understanding the great Portuguese poet are the essays written about (and by) his heteronyms--Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, and Alvaro de Campos--the several pseudonyms under which he wrote an extraordinary body of poetry. In Always Astonished, Pessoa and his several selves debate and discuss one another's work, revealing how Portuguese modernism was shaped. Fernando Pessoa is one of the great voices of twentieth-century literature, and these manifestos, letters, journal notes, and critical essays range through aesthetics, lyric poetry, dramatic and visual arts, and the psychology of the artist. He gives us, too, a singularly heterodox political position in his strange work of fiction, The Anarchist Banker. "Eloquent, volatile and obsessed with life--and death--[Pessoa is one of the] modernist giants in whose shadow we live and who made our century one of the extraordinary richness."--The New York Times "Only a few years ago Fernando Pessoa was all but invisible in English.Now this outsider's outsider looms as the latest icon of modern poetry. Eugenio Lisboa devised A Centenary Pessoa in 1995, a lavish miscellany of poems, essays, biography, photographs, even paintings he inspired. Edwin Honig and Susan M. Brown reissued Poems of Fernando Pessoa, along with Honig's Always Astonished, a selected prose."-Robert Polito, BOMB Magazine Fernando Pessoa is Portugal's most important contemporary poet. He wrote under several identities, which he called heteronyms: Albet Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, and Bernardo Soares. He wrote fine poetry under his own name as well, and each of his "voices" is completely different in subject, temperament, and style.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 215mmItem Length: 139mmItem Weight: 198gAuthor: Fernando PessoaTranslator: Edwin HonigContributor: Edwin Honig (Translated by)Genre: Literary CriticismItem Width: 10mmRelease Year: 1998 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Publication Name: Always Astonished

Title: Always Astonished

Subtitle: Selected Prose

EAN: 9780872862289

ISBN: 9780872862289

Release Date: 02/12/1998

Release Year: 1998

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Translator: Edwin Honig

Contributor: Edwin Honig (Translated by)

Book Title: Always Astonished

Number of Pages: 160 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: City Lights

Topic: Essays

Item Height: 0.4 in

Publication Year: 1998

Genre: Literary Collections

Item Weight: 7.4 Oz

Author: Fernando Pessoa

Item Length: 8.5 in

Item Width: 5.5 in

Format: Trade Paperback