Pessoa av Richard Zenith

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<p><b>FINALIST: 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY</b><br><br><b>A <i>NEW STATESMAN</i> AND <i>SPECTATOR</i> BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021</b><br><br><b>''A revelation. Such a revolutionary literary discovery seems unlikely to be on offer again. It''s that good'' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><b><br> ''A masterpiece of literary biography. Zenith has produced a work in some ways as astonishing as those of Pessoa himself'' John Gray, <i>New Statesman</i></b><br><br>For many thousands of readers Fernando Pessoa''s <i>The Book of Disquiet </i>is 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.<br><br> Richard Zenith''s <i>Pessoa </i>at 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 mode