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 collec
This is the largest and richest volume of poetry by Pessoa available in English. It includes generous selections from the three poetic alter egos that the Portuguese writer dubbed "heteronyms" - Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Alvaro de Campos - and from
-I transferred to Teive my speculations on certainty, which lunatics have in greater abundance than anyone.- Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) was a multitude of writers: his works were composed by -heteronyms, - alter egos with distinct biogr
Vertebrado casi a manera de diálogo socrático inverso. "El banquero anarquista", del poeta portugués Fernando Pessoa, lleva hasta el paroxismo el desarrollo de un razonamiento sofista -es decir de una especulación inteligente, pero utilitaria, travest
On a singular March day in 1914, "Fernando Pessoa felt his master appear inside him, "Alberto Caeiro, " the heteronym that stands over his epiphanic collection, composed that day "The Keeper of Sheep" -- the pivotal work in the career of Portugal's great
Mensagem é o único livro de poemas de Fernando Pessoa publicado em português durante a sua vida. É também "realmente um só poema", como escreveu, dada a unidade perfeita conseguida pelo seu canto das grandezas passadas da nação - que se reflecte
This is the only integral collection of Pessoa's Caeiro heteronym in English, and the poems are accompanied by the introductions of Ricardo Reis and a memoir by Alvaro de Campos, two of Pessoa's other major poetic heteronyms, as well as a poem dedicated t
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 c
