The rediscovery in the 1990s of the Portuguese writer Fernando
Pessoa (1888 -- 1935) is reminiscent of the rediscovery of Kafka in
the 1950s. Like Kafka, Pessoa left his work in disarray, much of it
to be published only posthumously. And Pessoa has become a literary
icon of post-modernism, as Kafka was of modernism. Pessoa is best
known for his unique practice of writing under "heteronyms, "
distinct personalities whom he supplied with differing tastes,
literary influences, even horoscopes. Pessoa was a multitude of
writers.
Exact Change's edition of Pessoa's major prose work, The Book of
Disquiet, has been one of our bestsellers, and extensive articles
on Pessoa have now appeared in the New York Times Book Review, New
York Review of Books, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Voice Literary
Supplement, and Washington Post. The Book of Disquiet even showed
up in an ad for bn.com, as one of Susan Sontag's "Favorite 20th
Century Books in Translation."
And the discovery continues. In 1999, translator Richard Zenith
made a new find in the Pessoa archive in Lisbon: a group of prose
writings by a previously unknown heteronym, the "Baron of Teive."
Zenith edited the Portuguese volume of these writings, which were
received as a crucial piece of the puzzle that is Pessoa's oeuvre.
The Education of the Stoic is the unique work left by the Baron of
Teive, who, after destroying his previous literary attempts and
before destroying himself, explains "the impossibility of producing
superior art." It is the dark companion piece to The Book of
Disquiet. This is its first complete publication in English.
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