Haroldo de Campos
in Conversation
Edited by Bernard McGuirk
and Else R. P. Viera

Date of Publication: 1 August 2009

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This volume includes seminal texts by Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Severo Sarduy, Ángel Rama and Octavio Paz, among other distinguished intellectuals, and provides an indispensable introduction to the poetry, literary criticism and translation theory of Haroldo de Campos. As the contributors to this memorial collection definitively show, he will be acknowledged not only as an inspired poet and as a daring critic but also as a sans pareil translator himself who, as the formulator of a new translation theory, has left many extraordinary "transcreations". It is Umberto Eco who best captures the stature of Haroldo de Campos when he describes him as "a fine connoisseur of many literatures" and "one of the great poets of our time".

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Else R. P. Vieira Professor in Brazilian and Comparative Latin American Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She was formerly Visiting Professor at the Centre for Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford (1999) and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham (2001-2). She is the founder of the website The Sights and Images of Dispossession: The Fight for the Land and the Emerging Culture of the MST and Director of the project Screening Exclusion: the Boom of Brazilian and Argentine Documentary Film-Making 2001-2005. She has also edited City of God: Brazilian Social Cinema as Action, published by CCC Press.

Bernard McGuirk Professor of Romance Literatures and Literary Theory and Director of the Centre for the Study of Post-Conflict Cultures at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely on literatures in French, Spanish and Portuguese and his most recent books are Latin American Literature: Symptoms, Risks and Strategies of Poststructuralist Criticism (Routledge) and Poesia de Guerra (Memo). His latest book is Falklands-Malvinas: an Unfinished Business (New Ventures).