"After looking for him in the poems, we search for him in the prose. The pursuit of the Other in Pessoas work is neverending," writes Edwin Honig. Essential to understanding the great Portuguese poet are the essays written about (and by) his heteronymsAlberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, and Alvaro de Camposthe several pseudonyms under which he wrote an extraordinary body of poetry. In Always Astonished, Pessoa and his several selves debate and discuss one anothers work, revealing how Portuguese modernism was shaped. Fernando Pessoa is one of the great voices of twentiethcentury literature, and these manifestos, letters, journal notes, and critical essays range through aesthetics, lyric poetry, dramatic and visual arts, and the psychology of the artist. He gives us, too, a singularly heterodox political position in his strange work of fiction, The Anarchist Banker. "Eloquent, volatile and obsessed with lifeand death(Pessoa is one of the) modernist giants in whose shadow we live and who made our century one of the extraordinary richness."The New York Times Fernando Pessoa is Portugals most important contemporary poet. He wrote under several identities, which he called heteronyms Albet Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, and Bernardo Soares. He wrote fine poetry under his own name as well, and each of his "voices" is completely different in subject, temperament, and style.

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