SALON and Book Launch: co-presented with the Brown University Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and Tagus Press: Literary scholar Patricio Ferrari and other contributors on the collection of scholarly essays “Fernando Pessoa as English Reader and Writer,” co-edited by Ferrari and Jerónimo Pizarro and published in Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies 28.
5pm reception, 5:30 program, followed by book sale and signing

Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher, and philosopher Fernando Pessoa was one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century. With his digitized private library now online (thanks to Ferrari and several others), the importance of English to Pessoa has become indisputable. Numerous English authors served as the bedrock from which his poetic sensibility emerged, developed, and soared, and many of his writings (including those attributed to his heteronyms and/or to other literary personae) were greatly informed by these original sources. This volume includes unpublished materials, new transcriptions of texts Pessoa originally wrote in English, and verse translations by Pessoa into Portuguese.