The Education Of The Stoic The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive by Fernando Pessoa
Brand: Exact Change,U.S.
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Pessoas trenchant complement to The Book of Disquiet I transferred to Teive my speculations on certainty which lunatics have in greater abundance than anyone. Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa 18881935 was a multitude of writers his works were composed by heteronyms alter egos with distinct biographies ideologies influences even horoscopes. The Education of the Stoic is the only work left by the Baron of Teive who having destroyed all his previous attempts at literary creation and about to destroy himself explains the impossibility of producing superior art. The barons manuscript is found in a hotelroom drawernot unlike editor and translator Richard Zeniths own discovery while conducting research in the Pessoa archives of a small black notebook whose contents had never been transcribed. In it he found the missing pieces of this short but trenchant complement to Pessoas major prose work The Book of Disquiet. Pessoa himself noted that despite their dialectical differences the middleclass author of The Book of Disquiet assistant bookkeeper Bernardo Soares and the aristocrat Teive are two instances of the very same phenomenonan inability to adapt to real life. There are in Pessoa echoes of Becketts exquisite boredom the dark imaginings of Baudelaire whom he loved Melvilles evasive confidence man the dreamscapes of Borges Voice Literary Supplement The humorist who never smiles and makes our blood run cold the inventor of other poets and selfdestroyer the author of paradoxes clear as water and like water dizzying the mysterious one who doesnt cultivate mystery mysterious as the moon at noon the taciturn ghost of the Portuguese middaywho is Pessoa Octavio Paz show more
Condition : New
Author : Fernando Pessoa
Weight : 271
Publisher : Exact Change U.S.
Language : English
EAN : 9781878972408
ISBN10 : 1878972405
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 20041015
Place of Publication : Bostone United States
Pagination : 96
Dimensions : 152 X 228 X 7.87mm