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Article: An Introduction to Fernando Pessoa: Modernism and the Paradoxes of Authorship.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2000
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An Introduction to Fernando Pessoa: Modernism and the Paradoxes of Authorship. By DARLENE J. SADLIER. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 1998. 168 pp. $49.95.
The Presence of Pessoa: English, American and Southern African Literary Responses. By GEORGE MONTEIRO. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 1998. xi + 164 pp. $22.95.
Darlene J. Sadlier's book is a most welcome addition to the modest collection of volumes in English on Fernando Pessoa, one of this century's most intriguing modernist writers. In this general introduction to Pessoa's work, the author concentrates on the poetry of four of the principal heteronyms: Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, A ...