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Fernando Pessoa & Co.
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Born in 1888, Fernando Pessoa is widxely considered Portugal's greatest modern poet and author. With an introduction that illuminates the life and work of this elusive literary giant,
is the most comprehensive and elegantly translated edition of Pessoa's poetry available in English.
Pessoa was as much a creator of personas as he was of poetry, prose, and criticism. He wrote under what he referred to as "heteronyms," numerous alter egos with fully fleshed identities and writing styles, who supported and criticized each other's work in the margins of his drafts and in the literary journals of the time.
Ranging widely over the possibilities of language, Pessoa's poetry echoes symbolist verse, Portuguese folk song, and futurist manifesto. From spare minimalism to a revolutionary exuberance that recalls Walt Whitman's
, Pessoa's oeuvre was radically new and anticipated contemporary literature to an unnerving degree.
is "a beautiful one-volume course in the soul of the twentieth century" (
).
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About Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) - a poet who lived most his life in Lisbon, Portugal, and who died in obscurity there - has in recent years gained international recognition as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Now Richard Zenith has collected in a single volume all the major poetry of one of the most extraordinary poetic talents the century has produced (Microsoft Network's Reading Forum). Fernando Pessoa was as much a creator of personas as he was of poetry, prose, and criticism. He wrote under numerous heteronyms, literary alter egos with fully fleshed identities and writing styles, who supported and criticized each other's work in the margins of his drafts and in the literary journals of the time. From spare minimalism to a revolutionary exuberance that recalls Leaves of Grass, Pessoa's oeuvre was radically new and anticipated contemporary literary concerns to an unnerving degree. The first comprehensive edition of Pessoa's poetry in the English language, Fernando Pessoa & Co. is a work of extraordinary depth and poetic precision. Zenith's selection of Pessoa is a beautiful one-volume course in the soul of the twentieth century. — Booklist
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