The Lonesome Death of Bridget Furey, or: Pessoa Down Under

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dc.citation.issue17
dc.contributor.authorEdmond M
dc.contributor.authorLeggott M
dc.contributor.authorRoss J
dc.contributor.editorEdmund, M
dc.date.available2019-11-12
dc.date.issued2019-11-12
dc.description.abstractIt is arguable that Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), Portugal’s most celebrated modern poet and writer – also a dedicated Anglophile, who published his first four books (of a lifetime total of five) in English rather than his native Portuguese – has had even more influence on English-speaking prose-writers than on poets. This is certainly the case in New Zealand and Australia, where a number of essayists and fictionistas have taken inspiration from Pessoa’s concept of the heteronym, or alternate identity (of which he clocked up a lifetime total of at least 81 – including pseudonyms; autonyms; orthonyms; characters; semi, para, pre, proto and full heteronyms), and more specifically from his posthumous Book of Disquiet, available now in numerous overlapping translations, each (allegedly) more ‘complete’ and ‘definitive’ than the last. Writers such as Martin Edmond (Ghost Who Writes, 2004), Bridget Furey (‘Brag Art’, 1997), Michele Leggott (Journey to Portugal, 2007), Gerard Murnane (The Plains, 1982), Mark Young (Genji Monogatari, 2010), and numerous others have conducted literary experiments here in antipodean alteriority, many of them under the same astrological and occultist promptings as Pessoa himself. In this paper I hope to offer a brief account of the slippery overlapping realm of ‘truth / fiction’ many of these works appear to aspire to inhabit.
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dc.format.extent62 - 79
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dc.identifierhttp://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/kmko/17/ka_mate17_ross.pdf
dc.identifier.citationKa Mate Ka Ora : a New Zealand Journal of Poetry and Poetics, 2019, (17), pp. 62 - 79
dc.identifier.elements-id427745
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn1177-2182
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherThe New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/kmko/
dc.relation.isPartOfKa Mate Ka Ora : a New Zealand Journal of Poetry and Poetics
dc.relation.urihttp://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/kmko/17/ka_mate17_ross.pdf
dc.subjectpoetry
dc.subjectNew Zealand poetry
dc.subjectFernando Pessoa
dc.subjectBridget Furey
dc.subject.anzsrc2005 Literary Studies
dc.titleThe Lonesome Death of Bridget Furey, or: Pessoa Down Under
dc.typeJournal article
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