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Antonio Pedro: Just a Story
Claudia Pazos Alonso
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Description for Antonio Pedro: Just a Story
Paperback. First English translation of short novel by influential and pioneering surrealist Portuguese writer, Antonio Pedro. Series: Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics. Num Pages: 116 pages. BIC Classification: A; B. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 148 x 15. Weight in Grams: 208.
The Portuguese Antonio Pedro (1909-1966) was a cosmopolitan and multifaceted artist; one of the pioneers of surrealism in Portugal, both as a visual artist and as a writer. He was involved in the London surrealist group in 1944-5. Today Pedro is perhaps best remembered for his steadfast opposition to Salazar's long dictatorship, initially as a BBC radio broadcaster in wartime London and, on his return to Portugal, as the director of TEP (Teatro Experimental do Porto) throughout the 1950s. Just a Story (1942) comes at the halfway point in his forward-looking transnational trajectory. Pedro lived in Brazil in 1940-1 ... Read more
The Portuguese Antonio Pedro (1909-1966) was a cosmopolitan and multifaceted artist; one of the pioneers of surrealism in Portugal, both as a visual artist and as a writer. He was involved in the London surrealist group in 1944-5. Today Pedro is perhaps best remembered for his steadfast opposition to Salazar's long dictatorship, initially as a BBC radio broadcaster in wartime London and, on his return to Portugal, as the director of TEP (Teatro Experimental do Porto) throughout the 1950s. Just a Story (1942) comes at the halfway point in his forward-looking transnational trajectory. Pedro lived in Brazil in 1940-1 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Aris & Phillips
Condition
New
Series
Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics
Number of Pages
116
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910572061
SKU
V9781910572061
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About Claudia Pazos Alonso
Cláudia Pazos Alonso is Associate Professor in Portuguese and Brazilian studies at the University of Oxford. She has published extensively on Lusophone women’s writing, and is co-editor of A Companion to Portuguese Literature and Reading Literature in Portuguese. Commentaries in honour of Tom Earle. Bruno Silva Rodrigues is currently an FCT-funded doctoral student at the University of Oxford, where he ... Read more
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