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 ...

Fernando Pessoa’s ID card, 1900. (Photo by Marka / Universal Images Group via Getty Images) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional ...

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 ...

The Complete Works of Albert Caiero by Fernando Pessoa is published by New Directions. In 1935, the family members of a recently deceased corporate translator were sorting through the detritus of his ...

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, ...

If ever there was a writer in flight from his name, it was Fernando Pessoa. Pessoa is the Portuguese word for “person,” and there is nothing he less wanted to be. Again and again, in both poetry and ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Does genius know itself? Adrienne Rich thought so. She held that Emily Dickinson chose seclusion not ...

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 ...