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Fernando Pessoa

By (author) Bartholomew Ryan

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As a young man, Fernando Pessoa wrote â€˜be plural like the universe.â€™ Staying true to this, he went on to invent more than one hundred fictional alter-egos, which he called heteronyms. This biography, probing Pessoaâ€™s experience and imagination of reality, navigates the poetâ€™s early days in Lisbon and South Africa, reveals a philosopher-poet and pioneer of Portuguese modernism, and delves into the birth of Pessoaâ€™s heteronymic universe. Bartholomew Ryan traverses Pessoaâ€™s writings on evolving radical politics and his messianic dream of an empire of poets, his ventures into esoteric realms and his expertise in astrology. The book unravels Pessoaâ€™s real and imaginary relationships, and explores his unfinished prose masterpiece, The Book of Disquiet. This is a compelling, timely exploration of Pessoaâ€™s profound and innovative ideas, including his revolutionary concepts of identity and self-multiplicity.