Fernando Pessoa: Critical Lives
Autor Bartholomew Ryanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 noi 2024
As a young man Fernando Pessoa aspired to, as he put it, “be plural like the universe.” He would fulfill this desire by inventing over one hundred fictional alter-egos which he called heteronyms. Beginning with Pessoa’s early days in Portugal, this philosophical biography explores the life, work, and imaginative universe of this modernist pioneer. Bartholomew Ryan offers a detailed overview of Pessoa’s writings on radical politics, his ventures into esoteric realms, and his expertise in astrology. Along the way, Ryan unravels Pessoa’s real and literary relationships and explores his unfinished prose masterpiece, The Book of Disquiet. This is a compelling, timely exploration of Pessoa’s profound, innovative ideas.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781789149340
ISBN-10: 1789149347
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 54 halftones
Dimensiuni: 128 x 197 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Seria Critical Lives
ISBN-10: 1789149347
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 54 halftones
Dimensiuni: 128 x 197 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Seria Critical Lives
Notă biografică
Bartholomew Ryan is a philosopher, musician, and researcher based at IFILNOVA, New University of Lisbon. His books include the coedited Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy: Countless Lives Inhabit Us.
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"This is a brilliant, knowledgeable, and original presentation of the multitudinous poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935). . . With deep knowledge of Pessoa’s life and archive, Ryan connects fragments, themes, and ideas drawn throughout a life of literature and imagination. His is the most accessible and profound presentation of Pessoa to date, a concise yet expansive and illuminating intellectual biography, written in a clear and readable style. . . . Highly recommended."
"More than presenting a concise life story of Portugal’s most fascinating writer of recent centuries, Bartholomew Ryan draws illuminating connections between the self-described 'poet animated by philosophy' and thinkers as diverse as Lenin, Kierkegaard, Gandhi, Nietzsche, Yeats, Eliot, Heidegger, Magris, Joyce and Clarice Lispector. It’s a joyous ride through a wild world of ideas, literary experiments and multiple selves."
"Comprehensive in its cultural reach, penetrating yet always lucid, this critical study unriddles the enigma of Pessoa and gently guides us through his 'multifaceted writing universe.' The illustrations place Pessoa in a local context, but more importantly Bartholomew Ryan establishes him, as he deserves, in a modernist priesthood beside James Joyce and T. S. Eliot."
"To write a critical life that fully does justice to a figure as complex and multifaceted as Fernando Pessoa is an extremely daunting task. Deeply immersed in Portugal’s problematic early twentieth-century politics and in the emergence of a pan-European modernity, Pessoa’s vast output of mostly unrealized literary projects ranges from poems, political essays and manifestos to astrology charts, automatic writings, and texts on neopaganism, not to mention the swirling assemblage of prose fragments that somehow constitute The Book of Disquiet. Bartholomew Ryan has succeeded brilliantly, achieving what nobody has dared to attempt before, a comprehensive yet concise map in exquisite English of the life and work of this dreamy, fragmented, ruinous creature of the abyss, who wrote into reality the many-headed monster that is the self."
"What is there to add? For sure, a concise alternative to that thousand-page effort, informed by Zenith’s scholarship, would not go amiss. That’s the objective of Reaktion’s Critical Lives series, and Bartholomew Ryan achieves it here. But Ryan—a philosophy research fellow and instructor at IFILNOVA, New University of Lisbon—also brings a unique focus to the philosophical content and context of Pessoa’s work."
"What makes Ryan’s study so compelling is his ability to map the life and work of a writer who seemed determined to remain ungraspable. Pessoa’s immense body of work, much of it left incomplete, spans poetry, political manifestos, astrology charts, automatic writings, and meditations on neopaganism. Through Ryan’s lucid and eloquent prose, readers gain a rare sense of coherence in Pessoa’s dreamlike disorder."
"Probably the key figure in Portuguese literary modernism, Pessoa’s approach was unique: he invented dozens of different alter egos for himself with different literary styles and interests. As well as an astonishing achievement, the kind of fragmentary identity he pioneered seems particularly apt for our own age of multiple and fractured selves. Part of Reaktion’s Critical Lives series, this shortish book looks like an ideal place to start with Pessoa."