Fernando Pessoa – A Critical Introduction Pizarro Hardback 9781789760699

Fernando PessoaA Critical Introduction\nAuthor(s): Jernimo Pizarro\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781789760699, 978-1789760699\nSynopsis\nA Critical Introduction proposes a new didactic and dynamic way of reading the great twentieth-century poet Fernando Pessoa [tel]. 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, Jernimo 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.