Pessoa : an experimental life (engelsk)

Nearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) remains one of our most enigmatic writers. 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when the arc of his afterlife bent, suddenly and improbably, toward greatness, with the discovery of some 25,000 unpublished papers left in a large, wooden trunk. Drawing on this vast archive of sources as well as on unpublished family letters, and setting the poet’s life against the nationalist currents of twentieth-century European history, Zenith reveals the true depths of Pessoa’s teeming imagination and literary genius.