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by Haroldo de Campos

Os problemas da criação e da crítica hoje, os problemas de uma produção textual de vanguarda e da reflexão metalinguística apta a enfocá-la são algumas das questões enfrentadas por este livro-polêmica que propõe novos critérios para a apreciação do fenômeno estético.

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Haroldo de Campos was a Brazilian poet, critic, and translator. He and his brother Augusto de Campos, together with Décio Pignatari, formed the poetic group Noigandres that published the experimental journal of the same name, which would launch the Brazilian movement of poesia concreta (concrete poetry).
He translated some of the most important literature of the Western tradition into Portuguese, such as Homer's Iliad, prose by James Joyce and poetry by Mallarmé. When he died he left unfinished a translation of Dante's Comedia, a manuscript that Umberto Eco had a chance to read, which compelled him to say that "Haroldo de Campos is the best Dante translator in the world".

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