With the great Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) we get at least four writers for the price of one. In an age when many poets - Pound and Eliot among them spoke through "personae" and masks, Pessoa invented characters, complete with their own styles and biographies, and spoke through them. At the heart of this book is a selection of poems that Pessoa wrote as his quietly lyrical self, as the pagan and bucolic Alberto Caeiro, as the neo-classical dilettante Ricardo Reis, as the wildly confessional Alvaro de Campos. Keith Bosley's translations reflect the diversity of voices of a major talent in the history of Modernism. "The Centenary Pessoa" also includes a substantial selection of Pessoa's prose, essay contributions from various hands including Octavio Paz and Eugenio Lisboa, a bibliography, and a fascinating iconography.
- ISBN10 1857543688
- ISBN13 9781857543681
- Publish Date 27 November 1997 (first published 25 May 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 October 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 348
- Language English