Name: galaxias
SKU: 64819144
Price: 749.00 TWD
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Author: Haroldo de Campos;Odile Cisneros
ISBN: 9781946433763

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Ugly Duckling Presse

Author

Haroldo de Campos;Odile Cisneros

Year

2025

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Paperback

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23.5x19.1x1.3 cm

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9781946433763

galaxias

Haroldo De Campos;Odile Cisneros (Author) · Ugly Duckling Presse · Paperback

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Synopsis "galaxias"

Begun in 1963 and only published in its final form in 1984, galaxias is a sui generis work. As Haroldo de Campos himself wrote: "An audiovideotext, a videotextgame, the galaxias situate themselves on the border between prose and poetry. In this kaleidoscopic book, theres an epic, narrative gesturemini-stories that come together and dissolve like the 'suspense' of a detective novel but the image remains, the vision or calling of the epiphanic." A series of 50 galactic cantosin homage to both Dante and Pound de Campos likewise follows James Joyces cue in conceiving of galaxias as a defense and illustration of the Portuguese language and its poetic possibilities. The text incorporates literary allusion, citation, and words and phrases in at least a dozen languages, making galaxias a formidable experiment in polyglot poetry. Galaxias charts the literal and literary journeys de Campos undertook from the early 1950s on. Arguably his chief poetic accomplishment, galaxias is also a landmark in world avant-garde poetics, now appearing in the first English translation