Fernando Pessoa, Author, Maria Jose De Lancastre, Editor, Maria J. De Lancastre, Editor Serpent's Tail $16.99 (324p) ISBN 978-1-85242-204-2
A better title might be The Books of Disquiet . Each entry in this fictional diary of one Bernardo Soares represents an attempt to create a distinct biography, for Soares lives according to the maxim: ``Give to each emotion a personality, to each...
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Fernando Pessoa, Author, Erroll McDonald, Editor, Alfred J. Mac Adam, Translator Pantheon Books $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-40234-3
Pessoa (1888-1935), identified by Barnard professor MacAdam as Portugal's major 20th-century writer, seems to have interpreted Whitman's statement ``I contain multitudes'' as an imperative; the gifted and perfectionist poet gave voice to a variety...
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Fernando Pessoa, Author, Richard Zenith, Editor ; trans. from the Portuguese by Richard Zenith. Penguin $15 (544p) ISBN 978-0-14-118304-6
When Pessoa died in 1935, a few years short of 50, he left behind a trunk of mostly unpublished writing in a variety of languages; his Lisbon publishers and variously translators are still sifting them. This perpetually unclassifiable and unfinished
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Fernando Pessoa, edited by Jerónimo Pizarro, trans. from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. New Directions, $24.95 (608p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2693-6
Reviewed by Marcela ValdesA triumph of scholarship and translation, this collaboration between editor Pizarro and translator Jull Costa presents in English one of the greatest works of Portuguese fiction in its entirety for the first time. Composed...
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Fernando Pessoa, trans. from the Italian by Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari. New Directions, $21.95 trade paper (480p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2988-3
Pessoa (1888–1935), Portugal’s best-known modernist writer, left two trunks filled with thousands of unpublished writings. This impressive collection features works written under his heteronym, Álvaro de Campos, including facsimiles of his original...
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Fernando Pessoa, Author, Richard Zenith, Translator Penguin Books $17 (436p) ISBN 978-0-14-303955-6
Translator Zenith's new selection of Portugal's major 20th century poet is more inclusive than any to date and includes works from all of Pessoa's alter-egos (each has his own biography, poetics and politics). Alberto Caeiro, the self-educated...
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