Book description
Author of paradoxes as clear as water and, as water, dizzying: ...
mysterious man who does not cultivate mystery, mysterious as the
mid-day moon, taciturn phantom of the Portuguese mid-day - who is
Pessoa?' asks Octavio Paz. This collection of the work of Fernando
Pessoa (1888-1935) answers that question. It is an essential
introduction to the work of one of the most original European poets of
the twentieth century. It includes translations of a broad selection
of his poems and his extraordinary prose, and some of his original
English writings. A major introductory essay by Octavio Paz, a
critical anthology, two posthumous 'interviews' and illustrations from
the Pessoa archive are also included, to reveal the world of Pessoa in
all its richness.
