Congressman Barney Frank, the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Portuguese Studies announce a symposium entitled “The Portuguese Renaissance and the Brazilian Baroque: A Colloquium on Three New Books” to be held at the Library of Congress Members’ Room on Friday, November 13, 2009, 10:00 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Livros a apresentar:1. The Traveling Eye: Retrospection, Vision and Prophecy in the Portuguese Renaissance, by Helder Macedo and Fernando Gil
2. Sonnets and Other Poems, by Luís de Camões, translated by Richard Zenit
3. The Sermon of Saint Anthony to the Fish and Other Texts, by António Vieira, translated by Gregory Rabassa
Participantes:
Helen Vendler - the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University
Gregory Rabassa - Emeritus Professor of Portuguese at City University of New York and the translator
Helder Macedo - Emeritus Professor of Portuguese at King’s College, University of London, and renowned Portuguese poet, novelist and essayist
Richard Zenith - one of the pre-eminent translators from Portuguese and Brazilian literature today
Vincent Barletta - Professor of Iberian literatures and cultures of the medieval and early modern periods at Stanford University
Ken Krabbenhoft - professor of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University