Richard Zenith
Pessoa: An Experimental Life
Pessoa: An Experimental Life
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Richard Zenith's Pessoa is a groundbreaking literary biography that reveals the life and work of the enigmatic Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa. Zenith charts Pessoa's creative genius and explores his use of multiple names and styles, demonstrating how they were projections of his own identity. The book is a masterpiece that provides a definitive understanding of Pessoa's extraordinary life and legacy.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 1088 pages
Publication date: 25 August 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
FINALIST: 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY
A NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021
A revelation. Such a revolutionary literary discovery seems unlikely to be on offer again. It's that good
Sunday Times
A masterpiece of literary biography.
Zenith has produced a work in some ways as astonishing as those of Pessoa himself
John Gray, New Statesman
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 death in Lisbon, where he left over 25,000 manuscript sheets in a wooden trunk, Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) can now be celebrated as one of the great modern poets.
Setting the story of his life against the nationalistic currents of European history, Zenith charts the heights of Pessoa's explosive imagination and literary genius.
Much of Pessoa's charm and strangeness came from his writing under a variety of names that he used not only to conceal his identity but also to write in wildly varied styles with different imagined personalities.
Zenith traces the back stories of virtually all of these invented others, called heteronyms, demonstrating how they were projections, spin-offs, or metamorphoses of Pessoa himself.
Zenith's monumental work confirms the power of Pessoa's words to speak prophetically to the disconnectedness of modern life.
It is also a wonderful book about Lisbon, the city which Pessoa reinvented and through which his different selves wandered.
Definitive and sublime
New York Times
Weight: 784g
Dimension: 130 x 198 x 52 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780141998299
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