Pessoa: A Biography

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Price
$40.00  $37.20
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
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Pages
1088
Dimensions
6.5 X 9.1 X 2.4 inches | 3.3 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780871404718

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About the Author
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, Portugal.
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[I]n this gloriously labyrinthine biography . . . Zenith elegantly conveys Pessoa's eccentricity . . . while making him an exemplar of the fragmented consciousness of a modernity . . . Zenith's dynamic prose, deep erudition, and incisive readings of Pessoa's poetry make for a meticulous portrait of one artist's brilliant and bewildering inner world.--Publishers Weekly, starred review
[A] capacious, perceptive biography of the enigmatic Portuguese writer... Zenith delivers careful readings of Pessoa's works and examines with sensitivity his varied intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic proclivities as well as his longing for posthumous fame, which he amply accrued. Impressive research and evident enthusiasm inform a definitive biography.--Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Zenith . . . an English-language authority on Portuguese poetry . . . fastens a mysterious literary figure to history . . . detail[ing] how Pessoa's firsthand observations of European imperialism, young democracy, and the Great War influenced his work . . . In this extensively researched biography, Zenith's candid and questioning tone is refreshing and necessary . . . Essential to academic collections, this biography is also accessible to general audiences interested in the potential of art that does not imitate life.--Asa Drake "Library Journal"