Pessoa
An Experimental Life
$52.26
- Paperback
1088 pages
- Release Date
29 November 2022
Summary
A monumental biography of one of the twentieth century’s greatest and most enigmatic writers.
For many thousands of readers Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet is almost a way of life. Ironic, haunting, and melancholy, this completely unclassifiable work is the masterpiece of one of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic writers.
Richard Zenith’s Pessoa at last allows us to understand this extraordinary figure. Some eighty-five years after his premature de…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141998299 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141998296 |
| Author: | Richard Zenith |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 1088 |
| Release Date: | 29 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 790g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 50mm |
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Critics Review
A masterpiece of literary biography … a tour de force of cultural history. Zenith’s achievement is extraordinary. By illuminating this elusive figure Zenith has produced a work in some ways as astonishing as those of Pessoa himself. – John Gray * New Statesman *
Mammoth, definitive and sublime. Zenith has written the only kind of biography truly permissible, an account of a life that plucks at the very borders and burdens of the notion of a self. * New York Times *
A completely superb and magisterial life of Fernando Pessoa. Finally, this extraordinary poet gets the great biography he deserves. Unsurpassable. – William Boyd
Even now, Fernando Pessoa remains one of the lesser-known of the truly great writers of the 20th century. This immense, magnificent biography is going to change that… here is a revelation: a modern master to rank alongside Joyce, Kafka, Beckett, say. Such a revolutionary literary discovery seems unlikely to be on offer again. It’s that good.
– David Sexton * Sunday Times *Monumental … To do justice to the magnitude and complexities of Pessoa Zenith, a translator and literary critic, spent more than a decade collating material. The result is a tour de force. – Cláudia Pazos Alonso * Times Literary Supplement *
Erudite, sensitive and entertaining, this multi-faceted portrait pays its giant homage to a man who wasn’t there. – Boyd Tonkin * Financial Times *
Monumental … Zenith brought to the task a depth of scholarship gained through more than 30 years of publishing, translating and promoting his subject’s work; Pessoa, who had few intimates in life, is lucky to have found this posthumous friend … Pessoa really did build an entire city. It was a city that needed a guide. Thanks to Zenith, it has one at last. – Benjamin Moser * New York Times *
A portrait with bags of personality … Richard Zenith’s massive biography of the Portuguese writer who constructed numerous identities captures his tragicomic oddity. – Peter Conrad * Observer *
A truly comprehensive representation of any one person is almost impossible. That very impossibility is largely what makes Richard Zenith’s biography of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa so remarkable. – Alberto Manguel * Literary Review *
Ingenious … with flashes of charm and wit. – Stuart Kelly * The Spectator *
About The Author
Richard Zenith
Richard Zenith is an acclaimed translator and literary critic. His translations include Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet and Fernando Pessoa and Co.- Selected Poems, which won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. The recipient of Portugal’s Pessoa Prize, Zenith lives in Lisbon.
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