{"product_id":"pessoa-9780141998299","title":"Pessoa","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST: 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW STATESMAN\u003c\/i\u003e AND \u003ci\u003eSPECTATOR\u003c\/i\u003e BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A revelation. Such a revolutionary literary discovery seems unlikely to be on offer again. It''s that good'' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''A masterpiece of literary biography. Zenith has produced a work in some ways as astonishing as those of Pessoa himself'' John Gray, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor many thousands of readers Fernando Pessoa''s \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Disquiet \u003c\/i\u003eis almost a way of life. Ironic, haunting and melancholy, this completely unclassifiable work is the masterpiece of one of the twentieth century''s most enigmatic writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Richard Zenith''s \u003ci\u003ePessoa \u003c\/i\u003eat last allows us to understand this extraordinary figure. Some eighty-five years after his premature death in Lisbon, where he left over 25,000 manuscript sheets in a wooden trunk, Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) can now be celebrated as one of the great mod\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA masterpiece of literary biography\u003c\/b\u003e ... a tour de force of cultural history. Zenith's achievement is \u003cb\u003eextraordinary\u003c\/b\u003e. By illuminating this elusive figure Zenith has produced a work in some ways as astonishing as those of Pessoa himself. -- John Gray * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMammoth, definitive and sublime.\u003c\/b\u003e Zenith has written \u003cb\u003ethe only kind of biography truly permissible\u003c\/b\u003e, an account of a life that plucks at the very borders and burdens of the notion of a self. * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003ecompletely superb and magisterial\u003c\/b\u003e life of Fernando Pessoa. Finally, this extraordinary poet gets the great biography he deserves. \u003cb\u003eUnsurpassable.\u003c\/b\u003e -- William Boyd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven now, Fernando Pessoa remains one of the lesser-known of the truly great writers of the 20th century. This \u003cb\u003eimmense, magnificent\u003c\/b\u003e biography is going to change that... here is a revelation: a modern master to rank alongside Joyce, Kafka, Beckett, say. \u003cb\u003eSuch a revolutionary literary discovery seems unlikely to be on offer again. It's that good.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- David Sexton * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMonumental \u003c\/b\u003e... To do justice to the magnitude and complexities of Pessoa Zenith, a translator and literary critic, spent more than a decade collating material. The result is \u003cb\u003ea tour de force.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Cláudia Pazos Alonso * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eErudite, sensitive and entertaining\u003c\/b\u003e, this multi-faceted portrait pays its giant homage to a man who wasn't there. -- Boyd Tonkin * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMonumental\u003c\/b\u003e ... Zenith brought to the task a depth of scholarship gained through more than 30 years of publishing, translating and promoting his subject's work; \u003cb\u003ePessoa, who had few intimates in life, is lucky to have found this posthumous friend\u003c\/b\u003e ... Pessoa really did build an entire city. It was a city that needed a guide. Thanks to Zenith, it has one at last. -- Benjamin Moser * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA portrait with bags of personality\u003c\/b\u003e ... Richard Zenith's massive biography of the Portuguese writer who constructed numerous identities \u003cb\u003ecaptures his tragicomic oddity.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Peter Conrad * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eA truly comprehensive representation of any one person is almost impossible. That very impossibility is largely what makes Richard Zenith's biography of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa \u003cb\u003eso remarkable.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Alberto Manguel * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eIngenious ... with flashes of charm and wit. -- Stuart Kelly * The Spectator *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gloriously labyrinthine biography\u003c\/b\u003e ... Zenith's \u003cb\u003edynamic prose, deep erudition, and incisive readings\u003c\/b\u003e of Pessoa's poetry make for a meticulous portrait of one artist's brilliant and bewildering inner world. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinally! A brilliant biography that places Pessoa where he should have always belonged\u003c\/b\u003e, with Joyce, Proust, and Musil - true giants, none of whom were Nobel laureates. -- André Aciman, author of CALL ME BY YOUR NAME\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePessoa \u003c\/i\u003eis a triumph of scholarship and verve that one cannot easily put down.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Antonio Damasio, author of DESCARTES' ERROR\u003cbr\u003eRichard Zenith is his genius biographer who has given [Pessoa] fresh life. \u003cb\u003eNo one on earth knows more about Pessoa. \u003c\/b\u003eWith its historical sweep and novelistic execution, \u003cb\u003ethis biography will never be bested.\u003c\/b\u003e -- William Giraldi, author of AMERICAN AUDACITY\u003cbr\u003eWhen you consider the fantastically vivid details of Fernando Pessoa's curious life contained in this biography, and the \u003cb\u003eenergetic and elegant quality of the writing\u003c\/b\u003e, you might wonder if this book is actually a just discovered autobiography, written by one of Pessoa's heteronyms, 'Richard Zenith.' \u003cb\u003eNo one, it seems, could know so much or relate it so marvelously unless they had lived inside Pessoa's head. Zenith's \u003ci\u003ePessoa\u003c\/i\u003e is magnificent.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Forrest Gander, author of BE WITH","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732517204311,"sku":"9780141998299","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141998299.jpg?v=1719997230","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pessoa-9780141998299","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}