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Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa (Portuguese: [fɨɾˈnɐ̃du pɨˈsoɐ]; 13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, and publisher.
Pessoa: A Biography is a biography of Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa by Richard Zenith. It was published in 2021 in New York by Liveright Publishing Corporation. It was also published as Pessoa: An Experimental Life in 2021 in London by Allen Lane.
A few months later, with growing financial problems and depression, Sá-Carneiro wrote a dramatic letter to Fernando Pessoa on March 31, 1916: "Unless there occurs a miracle, next Monday, March (or even the day before), your friend Mário de Sá-Carneiro will take a strong dose of strychnine and disappear from this world."
The first phase (marked by the poem Opiário) derived some of its pessimism from Pessoa's friend Mário de Sá-Carneiro, with whom he had collaborated on the Orpheu magazine. In the last phase, Pessoa drops the mask, and affords a glimpse, through Campos, of the emptiness and nostalgia that took over during his own last years. [ 1 ]
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) was a Portuguese poet who posthumously became highly regarded in European literature. [1] Alberto Caeiro was the first of his major heteronyms, a term he used for what was a mixture of pen names, author personas and fictional characters. [2]
Zenith has translated many of Pessoa's works into English, including The Book of Disquiet, and he has written extensively about Pessoa's poetry, prose and life. He has also translated Carlos Drummond de Andrade , Antero de Quental , Sophia de Mello Breyner , Nuno Júdice , António Lobo Antunes , and Luís de Camões , amongst other Portuguese ...
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Deeply in love with Portugal, he was an expert, critic and translator of the works of Fernando Pessoa from whom he drew the conceptions of saudade, of fiction and of the heteronyms. Tabucchi was first introduced to Pessoa's works in the 1960s when attending the Sorbonne .