02390cam a2200301 i 4500 506903817 TxAuBib 20210914120000.0 210226s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021005140 9780871404718 HRD 40.00 0871404710 HRD 40.00 TxAuBib rda Zenith, Richard. Pessoa [BOOK] : a biography / Richard Zenith. First edition. New York, N.Y. : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2021. xxxi, 1055 pages, [32] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 959-1034) and index. Part 1. The born foreigner (1888-1905) -- Part II. The poet as transformer (1905-1914) -- Part III. Dreamer and civilizer (1914-1925) -- Part IV. Spiritualist and humanist (1925-1935). Nearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) remains one of our most enigmatic writers. Believing he could do “more in dreams than Napoleon,” yet haunted by the specter of hereditary madness, Pessoa invented dozens of alter egos, or “heteronyms,” under whose names he wrote in Portuguese, English, and French. Unsurprisingly, this “most multifarious of writers” (Guardian) has long eluded a definitive biographer―but in renowned translator and Pessoa scholar Richard Zenith, he has met his match. Relatively unknown in his lifetime, Pessoa was all but destined for literary oblivion when the arc of his afterlife bent, suddenly and improbably, toward greatness, with the discovery of some 25,000 unpublished papers left in a large, wooden trunk. Drawing on this vast archive of sources as well as on unpublished family letters, and skillfully setting the poet’s life against the nationalist currents of twentieth-century European history, Zenith at last reveals the true depths of Pessoa’s teeming imagination and literary genius. Provided by publisher. 20210914. Pessoa, Fernando 1888-1935. Poets, Portuguese 20th century Biography.