The Transformation Book, which belongs to Pessoa's pre-heteronymic
period, contains a series of fragments written in English,
Portuguese, and French, none of which were ever published during
Pessoa's lifetime. Conceived by Pessoa in 1908, a year of great
social and cultural transformation in Portugal, The Transformation
Book was designed to reflect and advance social and cultural
transformation in Portugal and beyond. Moving between a number of
literary forms, including poetry, fiction, and satire as well as
essays on politics, philosophy, and psychiatry, The Transformation
Book marks one of the fundamental stages in Pessoa's elaboration of
a new conception of literary space, one that he came to express as
a "drama in people." Alexander Search, Pantaleao, Jean Seul de
Meluret, and Charles James Search are the four "pre-heteronyms" to
which the texts of The Transformation Book are attributed. These
four figures constitute a plural literary microcosm - a world that
Pessoa makes, but that is occupied by a multiplicity of authors -
and clearly anticipate the emergence of Pessoa's heteronyms. As the
singular result of an intersection of Pessoa's personal
intellectual trajectory with his hopes for fomenting cultural
transformation, The Transformation Book makes for a unique
contribution to Pessoa's ever-growing published oeuvre. Although
some of the texts conceived as part of the Transformation Book have
previously been published in isolation or as fragments, this is the
first complete and critical edition of The Transformation Book, and
most of the texts in this edition are published here for the first
time. Through the critical efforts of Nuno Ribeiro and Claudia
Souza, a fundamental project of Fernando Pessoa's is now brought
from the confines of the archive to the public in its most complete
and accurate fashion. The Transformation Book should contribute to
future studies on the work of one of the most distinctive geniuses
of modernist literature.
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