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Anyone who knows the history of The Book of Disquiet will know what a bold claim completeness is. By Chris Power In a 1932 letter to João Gaspar Simões, Fernando Pessoa wrote that The Book of Disquiet ...

Pessoa had dozens of these alter egos, which he would eventually call “heteronyms.” He gave them birthdates and biographies, cast their horoscopes, practiced their signatures, and brought them along ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works and life of one of Portugal's greatest poets, who wrote in his own name and in those of several rounded characters he created. Show more Melvyn Bragg and ...

I love eccentric writers whose neuroses make me seem well-adjusted in comparison, and no writer — not one — was more neurotic than Fernando Pessoa. Pessoa's work The Book of Disquiet is one of life's ...

Pessoa: A Biography, by Richard Zenith. Liveright. 1,088 pages. $40. Pessoa’s real achievement, however, is to be seen less in this or that particular work than in the lucid incoherence of his total ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At intervals, this gargantuan yet graceful biography reminds you of its subject’s fabulous oddity. In 1926, ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Benjamin Moser PESSOA A Biography By Richard Zenith The emergence of Fernando Pessoa as one of ...