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Alberto Pimenta Biography

The end of the anthology almost Incomplete Work (1990) figure for a map of activities dates and genres: poetry, prose, theory, critical editions, acts of poetic intervention (aka happenings), poetic performances and radio and television "Art of being Portuguese" (1978-79), "6 Arias for Cesario" (1986) and the radio program "Chronicles of Scorn ".       Throughout this varied production (which includes translations from Thomas Bernhard and Botho Strauss) looms an express knowledge and the constant presence of tradition (see for example the mixture Camões / Pessoa on Read Mad in 1984), but always with the eye Th.W.Adorno said of the "Today the only way to honor the classics is making fun of them."      Many of the works of Alberto Pimenta are translated into several languages​​, and some of them were published (Il Silenzio dei Poeti, 1977, Milano, Feltrinelli, or Verdichtungen, 1997 Vienna, Splitter), and some were represented in Portugal and abroad. no have had much disclosure as Discourse on the Son of a Bitch (Lisbon, 1977), a treatise ironically that advances under the strictest scientific method. The Spanish edition and Catalan are 1990 (Valencia, Victor Orenga); then, Pepper held performance "Rituals of pollution" in space Continental.      Unforgettable performance among the dozens that did was "The Pig Brother", the disco Lux and the happenings "Homo Sapiens" (1977, cage Zoo Lisbon) and "Homo Venalis" (1991, portal church in the city center).      Its human coexistence and aesthetics has important references in Eugen Gomringer, Emmett Williams, Haroldo de Campos and Julián Ríos.      But his most accurate biography remains (which always uses): «A. P. was born in 1937 and not dead yet. " Without forgetting that he was a professor of language and literature at the Universities of Heidelberg and New University of Lisbon.