Description
The Washington Post Book World has written that Fernando Pessoa was "Portugal's greatest writer of the twentieth century [though] some critics would even leave off that last qualifying phrase" and "one of the most appealing European modernists, equal in command and range to his contemporaries Rilke and Mandelstam."
The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001, spans playful philosophical inquiry, Platonic dialogue, and bitter intellectual scrapping between Pessoa and his many literary alter egos ("heteronyms"). The heteronyms launch movements and write manifestos, and one of them attempts to break up Pessoa's only known romantic relationship. Also included is a generous selection from Pessoa's masterpiece, The Book of Disquiet, freshly translated by Richard Zenith from newly discovered materials.
The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa is an important record of a crucial part of the literary canon.
Author: Fernando Pessoa
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 03/15/2022
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.50w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9780802159151
ISBN10: 080215915X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | World Literature | Portugal
About the Author
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) was born in Lisbon, spent nine years of his childhood in Durban, South Africa, and then returned to his native city, where he earned a modest income as a commercial translator and lived for his writing. Most of his vast body of work was published posthumously.
Richard Zenith is an acclaimed translator and the author of Pessoa: A Biography. He produced the first complete English translation of Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet and won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation with Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems. He lives in Lisbon, Portugal.