EAN: 9780141998299

PESSOA - RICHARD ZENITH KARTONIERT (TB)

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     'Completely superb and magisterial. Finally  this extraordinary poet gets
the great biography he deserves. Unsurpassable' William Boyd

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