Fernando Pessoa is one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.
Until some years ago known in the English-speaking world only among
a minority of connaisseurs, his work is finally becoming available
in English translations, and more are in the process of reaching
the literary public. Born in Lisbon in 1888, Pessoa was only
forty-seven when he died, but he left behind a staggering number of
unpublished manuscripts that are still being screened and brought
to light. George Steiner heralded the day Pessoa discovered his
major Portuguese heteronyms, for no country had ever seen the birth
of four great poets in a single day. That was a reference to the
personae Pessoa created, the famous heteronyms Alberto Caeiro,
Alvaro de Campos, and Ricardo Reis, besides the man himself -- all
poets in their own right with their biographies and even critical
exchanges among themselves. Today well over a hundred Pessoa
heteronyms are known, including, notably, the semi-heteronym
Bernardo Soares, author of The Book of Disquiet, presently
available in two English translations. Lately, another Pessoa is
emerging -- an English writer, as well as a thinker. Indeed, having
been educated in Durban, South Africa, where his stepfather was the
consul of Portugal, the poet had a strong English education that
shaped his life and thought. George Monteiro has been in the
forefront of the uncovering of this side of Pessoa. Author, among
many other works, of The Presence of Pessoa: English, American, and
Southern African Literary Responses, and Fernando Pessoa and
Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Literature, in this volume
Monteiro continues to explore and interpret the world of Pessoa to
English-speaking readers.
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