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The Complete Works of Álvaro de Campos
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A companion volume to Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet and The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro
Álvaro de Campos is one of the most influential heteronyms created by Portugal’s great modernist writer Fernando Pessoa. According to Pessoa, Campos was born in Tavira (Algarve) in 1890 and studied mechanical engineering in Glasgow, although he never managed to complete his degree. In his own day, Campos was celebrated—and slandered—for his vociferous poetry imbued with a Whitman-inspired free verse, his praise of the rise of technology, and his polemical views that appeared in manifestos, interviews, and essays. Here in Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari’s translations are the complete poems of Campos. This edition is based on the Portuguese Tinta-da-china edition and includes an illuminating introduction about Campos by the Portuguese editors Jerónimo Pizarro and Antonio Cardiello, facsimiles of original manuscripts, and a generous selection of Campos’s prose texts.Download the free Fable app
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David Wheeler
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“One of my favorite discoveries of the year. Poems and prose. Darkly satirical, acutely abrasive, and extremely irate, Campos, being a persona of Fernando Pessoa, tears into the perception of living—and perception itself.
His prose almost reads like rhetorical theory (like a pissed off Kant or Descartes), treatises crying for a complete refabrication of civilization. His poetry moves between death, mathematics, metaphysics, cosmology; odes to the sea and historical figures—all riddled in contradiction: both intense love and hate for life.
Nearly 200 poems, nearly 20 stories. "Maritime Ode" and "Ultimatum" will stick with me for awhile, along with so many others. Interested to see Pessoa's other personas, with some appearing here in conversation with Campos.
Pseudonyms are generally a marketing scheme; Pessoa's employ of dozens (he calls heteronyms) is instead a fascinating literary approach: an author setting dynamite to his personality, using the shards as an exploratory means to probe, poison, and vilify the Self.”
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About Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935), the Portuguese poet, literary critic, and essayist, is one of the most significant literary figures of the twentieth century. He wrote not only under his own name but under over a hundred others (including Alexander Search, Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, and Bernardo Soares).
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Antonio Cardiello
Antonio Cardiello is a researcher in Philosophy and Comparative Literature at NOVA University Lisbon’s Institute of Philosophy.
Jerónimo Pizarro
Jerónimo Pizarro is a professor at the Universidad de los Andes and editor-in-chief of Pessoa Plural—A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies.
Margaret Jull Costa
Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson have translated the work of Lúcio Cardoso, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, and Clarice Lispector, among others. They live in England.
Other books by Margaret Jull Costa
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