PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
(1888-1935), the Portuguese writer, literary critic, translator, and publisher, is one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century. He wrote not only under his own name but under many others (including Bernardo Soares and Ricardo Reis). is a Professor at the Universidad de los Andes and holds the Camoes Institute Chair of Portuguese Studies in Colombia. Margaret Jull Costa is the award-winning translator of works by Eca de Quieros, Javier Marias, and Jose Saramago.
Pessoa's rapid prose, snatched in flight and restlessly suggestive, remains haunting, often startling. There is nobody like him. -- W. S. Merwin - The New Yorker Pessoa's rapid prose, snatched in flight and restlessly suggestive, remains haunting, often startling. There is nobody like him. -- W. S. Merwin Extraordinary-a haunting mosaic of dreams, autobiographical vignettes, shards of literary theory and criticisms and maxims. -- George Steiner Pessoa's work The Book of Disquiet is one of life's great miracles. Pessoa invented numerous alter egos. Arguably, the four greatest poets in the Portuguese language were all Pessoa using different names. -- NPR Readers with a particular interest in modernism will find this work indispensable. -- Publishers Weekly
