Jerónimo Pizarro

Ett av 1900-talets stora litterära mästerverk - för första gången i sin helhet på svenskaOrons bok är modernisten Fernando Pessoas mest kända verk och en av 1900-talets stora litterära bedrifter. Detta postuma mästerverk, ett porträtt av staden Lissabon och dess porträttör, består av hundratals textfragment som till formen rör sig mellan dagbok, prosalyrik och korta berättelser. Här finns melankoliska betraktelser, skildringar av själstillstånd och drömmerier, såväl som reflektioner över kärlek, moral och kunskap. Orons bok publicerades första gången på portugisiska 1982, fyrtiosju år efter Pessoas död. Denna nya svenska utgåva innehåller många aldrig tidigare översatta texter, och verket som helhet presenteras här för första gången i kronologisk ordning, i översättning och med en kommentar av Örjan Sjögren, samt med ett förord av den portugisiska utgåvans redaktör.FERNANDO PESSOA [1888-1935] var en portugisisk poet och litteraturkritiker, och en av 1900-talets mest betydande litterära personligheter. Han skrev inte bara under eget namn utan arbetade med en rad olika så kallade heteronymer, för att ge röst åt olika författartemperament. Vid Pessoas död hade endast en mycket liten del av hans litterära produktion givits ut och hans stora ryktbarhet vilar framför allt på den omfattande postuma utgivningen.

A Critical Introduction proposes a new didactic and dynamic way of reading the great twentieth-century poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). The aim is to present a holistic vision of this complex poet, promoting his literary geniality in order to better understand his orthonymic-heteronymic poetry. A guiding motif is Pessoa's own Be as plural as the universe. In leading the reader through the poet's published literary work, Jerónimo Pizarro allows an intimate perspective, alongside an academic one, to better understand the workings of Pessoa's mind and life. Discussion centres on the dilemmas an editor faces when editing posthumously. A prime question revolves around the genesis of Pessoa's heteronyms and orthonyms. Understanding is revealed by a critical perspective on the unity that exists in all of Pessoa's literary work. Interpretations of the poems; explanation of the profundity of The Book of Disquiet; and his isms of Paulism, Caeirism, Intersectionism and Cessationism, are discussed and analysed. The issue of Pessoa's astrological predictions his birth year and the effects of this event on Portuguese national history is debated. A chapter is devoted to the effect that translating Omar Khayyám's Rubáiyát had on the poet. The work contains eleven texts written by Pessoa in English (including an autobiographical note from 1935), a substantive dual language bibliography, and is highly illustrated with facsimiles of the poet's own written material. A Critical Introduction is essential reading for all scholars and students of Pessoa's literary output and life circumstances. The work has been written to appeal to cultural studies (arts and aesthetics) enthusiasts in general at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, but given the engagement of new critical material it also provides a structured resource for future research.

A Critical Introduction proposes a new didactic and dynamic way of reading the great twentieth-century poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). The aim is to present a holistic vision of this complex poet, promoting his literary geniality in order to better understand his orthonymic-heteronymic poetry. A guiding motif is Pessoa's own Be as plural as the universe. In leading the reader through the poet's published literary work, Jerónimo Pizarro allows an intimate perspective, alongside an academic one, to better understand the workings of Pessoa's mind and life. Discussion centres on the dilemmas an editor faces when editing posthumously. A prime question revolves around the genesis of Pessoa's heteronyms and orthonyms. Understanding is revealed by a critical perspective on the unity that exists in all of Pessoa's literary work. Interpretations of the poems; explanation of the profundity of The Book of Disquiet; and his isms of Paulism, Caeirism, Intersectionism and Cessationism, are discussed and analysed. The issue of Pessoa's astrological predictions his birth year and the effects of this event on Portuguese national history is debated. A chapter is devoted to the effect that translating Omar Khayyám's Rubáiyát had on the poet. The work contains eleven texts written by Pessoa in English (including an autobiographical note from 1935), a substantive dual language bibliography, and is highly illustrated with facsimiles of the poet's own written material. A Critical Introduction is essential reading for all scholars and students of Pessoa's literary output and life circumstances. The work has been written to appeal to cultural studies (arts and aesthetics) enthusiasts in general at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, but given the engagement of new critical material it also provides a structured resource for future research.