Here On Douradores Street: Essays On Fernando Pessoa
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Author: Eduardo Lourenco, 2010. ISBN 9780943722382
Here on Douradores Street brings together two major figures from 20th century Portuguese literary circles, the poet Fernando Pessoa and the distinguished intellectual Eduardo Lourenco whose essays have for long illuminated the poet's creative spirit. With this volume these essays will be accessible for the first time to the English-speaking reader seeking to understand the exceptional complexity of Pessoa's work.
The translator, Ronald W. Sousa, is on the faculty of the University of North Carolina, Ashville. He is the author of The Rediscoverers and co-author of Reading the Harper and The Humanities in Dispute. Ronald W. Sousa is also the translator of the companion piece to Here on Douradores Street, Eduardo Lourenco's This Little Lusitanian House: Essays on Portuguese Culture.
Here on Douradores Street brings together two major figures from 20th century Portuguese literary circles, the poet Fernando Pessoa and the distinguished intellectual Eduardo Lourenco whose essays have for long illuminated the poet's creative spirit. With this volume these essays will be accessible for the first time to the English-speaking reader seeking to understand the exceptional complexity of Pessoa's work.
The translator, Ronald W. Sousa, is on the faculty of the University of North Carolina, Ashville. He is the author of The Rediscoverers and co-author of Reading the Harper and The Humanities in Dispute. Ronald W. Sousa is also the translator of the companion piece to Here on Douradores Street, Eduardo Lourenco's This Little Lusitanian House: Essays on Portuguese Culture.
