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PESSOA - RICHARD ZENITH KARTONIERT (TB)

FINALIST: 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHYA 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 StatesmanFor 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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