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A Centenary Pessoa by Fernando Pessoa; Eugenio Lisboa (Editor); Keith Bosley (Translator); Bernard McGuirk (Translator); Maria M. Lisboa (Translator); Richard Zenith (Translator); Octavio Paz Lozano (Introduction by)
Category: Poetry | Series: Aspects of Portugal Ser.
This book brings us Pessoa, the angel and the monster of modern literature: his life, his works, and the works of art he inspired.
A Centenary Pessoa by Fernando Pessoa; Eugenio Lisboa (Editor); Octavio Paz Lozano (Foreword by); L. C. Taylor (Editor)
Category: Poetry
Author of paradoxes as clear as water and, as water, dizzying: ... mysterious man who does not cultivate mystery, mysterious as the mid-day moon, taciturn phantom of the Portuguese mid-day - who is Pessoa?' asks Octavio Paz. This collection of the work of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) answers that questio ...Show more
A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa
Category: Poetry
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 the vast and varied work he wrote under his own ...Show more
Fernando Pessoa And Co. Selected Poems by Pessoa Fernando
Category: Poetry
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 on ...Show more
I Have More Souls Than One (Mini Modern Classics) by Fernando Pessoa
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
But no, she's abstract, is a bird, Of sound in the air of air soaring, And her soul sings unencumbered, Because the song's what makes her sing.'Dramatic, lyrical and ranging over four distinct personae, these poems by one of Portugal's greatest poets trace a mind shaken by intense suffering and a tirele ...Show more
Selected Poems: Fernando Pessoa by Fernando Pessoa
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The writing of Fernando Pessoa reveals a mind shaken by intense inner suffering. In these poems he adopted four separate personae: Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis and himself, using them to express 'great swarms of thought and feeling'. While each personae has its own poetic identity, tog ...Show more
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator); William Boyd (Foreword by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
The Book of Disquiet is one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. Written over the course of Fernando Pessoa's life, it was first published in 1982, pieced together from the thousands of individual manuscript pages left behind by Pessoa after his death in 1935. Now this fragmentary moder ...Show more
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This edition is out of print. With its astounding hardcover reviews Richard Zenith's new complete translation of The Book of Disquiet has now taken on a similar iconic status to Ulysses, The Trial or In Search of Lost Time as one of the greatest but also strangest modernist texts. An assembly of sometim ...Show more
The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition by Fernando Pessoa
Category: Fiction
The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa's greatest literary achievement. An "autobiography" or "diary" containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions. Now, for the first time the texts ar ...Show more
The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition by Fernando Pessoa
Category: Fiction
The Book of Disquiet is one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. Written over the course of Fernando Pessoa's life, it was first published in 1982, pieced together from the thousands of individual manuscript pages left behind by Pessoa after his death in 1935. Now this fragmentary moder ...Show more
The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition by Fernando Pessoa
Category: Fiction
Sitting at his desk, Bernardo Soares imagined himself free forever of Rua dos Douradores, of his boss Vasques, of Moreira the book-keeper, of all the other employees, the errand boy, the post boy, even the cat. But if he left them all tomorrow and discarded the suit of clothes he wears, what else would ...Show more