Embodying Pessoa - 9780802091987

Embodying PessoaCorporeality, Gender, Sexuality\nAuthor(s): Anna Klobucka, Mark Sabine\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9780802091987, 978-0802091987\nSynopsis\nThe multifaceted and labyrinthine oeuvre of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa [tel] is distinguished by having been written and published under more than seventy different names. These were not mere pseudonyms, but what Pessoa termed 'heteronyms,' fully realized identities possessed not only of wildly divergent writing styles and opinions, but also of detailed biographies. In many cases, their independent existences extended to their publication of letters and critical readings of each other's works (and those of Pessoa 'himself').\n\n Long acclaimed in continental Europe and Latin America as a towering presence in literary modernism, Pessoa has more recently begun to receive the attention of an English-speaking public. Embodying Pessoa respond.