Abstract
In his book, Simon proceeds from several ambitious— although legitimate—premises. He claims that since the 1970s postmodernism has been one of the most defining (and unchanging) traits of the lyrical tradition of Portugal and Spain and, most interestingly, that both during the Portuguese and the Spanish dictatorships these postmodern characteristics constituted deconstructive and self-referential symptoms of subversive intentions behind apparently esoteric writings.
Highlights
For reasons that have intrigued me for years, some contemporary Portuguese poets are famous, paradoxically, for being “invisible.” Such authors are widely recognized for being shunned by both academic and nonacademic communities of critics, not necessarily by the general public: for example, Fernando Grade, as well as Pedro
Homem de Mello and José Carlos Ary dos Santos, two poets who are better known as lyricists and often excluded from the higher rungs of literary respectability
Joaquim Pessoa belongs to this group and Robert Simon’s book is the first in any language devoted exclusively to his work
Summary
Understanding the Portuguese Poet Joaquim Pessoa, 1942-2007: A Study in Iberian Cultural Hybridity. Joaquim Pessoa belongs to this group and Robert Simon’s book is the first in any language devoted exclusively to his work.
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