The prizewinning translation---the best English-language version we are likely to see for a long time, if ever- (The Guardian)--of a work of unclassifiable genius: the crowning achievement of Portugal's modern master Winner of the Calouste Gulbenkian Translation Prize for Portuguese Translation Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology, and horoscope. When he died in 1935, Pessoa left behind a trunk filled with...
The prizewinning translation---the best English-language version we are likely to see for a long time, if ever- (The Guardian)--of a work...
The Washington Post Book World has written that Fernando Pessoa was Portugal's greatest writer of the twentieth century though] some critics would even leave off that last qualifying phrase and one of the most appealing European modernists, equal in command and range to his contemporaries Rilke and Mandelstam. The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa spans playful philosophical inquiry, Platonic dialogue, and bitter intellectual scrapping between Pessoa and his many literary alter egos (heteronyms). The heteronyms launch movements and write manifestos, and one of them attempts to break up...
The Washington Post Book World has written that Fernando Pessoa was Portugal's greatest writer of the twentieth century though] some critics would ev...
-After looking for him in the poems, we search for him in the prose. The pursuit of the Other in Pessoa's work is never-ending, - writes Edwin Honig. Essential to understanding the great Portuguese poet are the essays written about (and by) his heteronyms--Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, and Alvaro de Campos--the several pseudonyms under which he wrote an extraordinary body of poetry. In Always Astonished, Pessoa and his several selves debate and discuss one another's work, revealing how Portuguese modernism was shaped. Fernando Pessoa is one of the great voices of twentieth-century...
-After looking for him in the poems, we search for him in the prose. The pursuit of the Other in Pessoa's work is never-ending, - writes Edwin Honi...
First published in 1982, this is the "factless autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of the 72 literary personae or "heteronyms" with which Fernando Pessoa created the theatre of his absence. The circular text returns again and again to a protagonist desperate to find out who he is.
First published in 1982, this is the "factless autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of the 72 literary personae or "heteronyms" with which Fernando ...
Die 1918 von Fernando Pessoa veröffentlichten 35 Sonette in einer Neuinterpretation. Übertragen und nachgedichtet von Andreas H. Keller und versehen mit Grafiken von Michael Dehnel.
Die 1918 von Fernando Pessoa veröffentlichten 35 Sonette in einer Neuinterpretation. Übertragen und nachgedichtet von Andreas H. Keller und versehen...
