The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa

Pessoa, Fernando

ISBN 10: 0802139140 / ISBN 13: 9780802139146

Verlag: Grove Press, 2002

Beschreibung

An acceptable and readable copy. All pages are intact, and the spine and cover are also intact. This item may have light highlighting, writing or underlining through out the book, curled corners, missing dust jacket and or stickers.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 467IJT0076BC

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
• Verlag: Grove Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0802139140
• ISBN-13: 9780802139146
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: Acceptable

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A Washington Post and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year

Though known primarily as a poet, Fernando Pessoa, a writer of “remarkable genius” (Washington Post) wrote prose widely, in several languages and in every genre. Now newly expanded and revised by award-winning translator and Pessoa biographer Richard Zenith, The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa spans fiction and drama, playful intellectual inquiry, Platonic dialogue, and bitter intellectual scrapping between Pessoa and his many literary alter egos (“heteronyms”). In these pieces, the heteronyms launch movements and write manifestos, and one of them attempts to break up Pessoa’s only known romantic relationship. Also included is a generous selection from Pessoa’s masterpiece The Book of Disquiet. This is an important record of a crucial part of the literary canon.

“A modern master to rank alongside Joyce, Kafka, Beckett.”—Sunday Times (UK)

“Beautifully translated, compact while appropriately diverse.” —Los Angeles Times

“ [A] delightful collection . . . [Pessoa] is the modernist’s modernist: an inspired amalgam of Lewis Carroll, Aristophanes, Erasmus, Voltaire.” —Washington Times

Reseña del editor

A single-volume celebration of the great Portuguese writer highlights the best of his fiction, drama, letters, and essays and includes newly translated selections from his masterful The Book of Disquiet. Reprint.