Pessoa (1888-1935), the most enduring poet of Portuguese modernism, worked on this sprawling collection of over 500 entries for more than 30 years. The work within varies from brief aphorisms of a line or two to lengthy pieces of several pages. Much of this mammoth, often labyrinthine, work, which is spoken by several different personas including a shepherd and a bookkeeper, went unpublished during his lifetime. This is a definitive work of international modernism.
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Pessoa (1888-1935), the most enduring poet of Portuguese modernism, worked on this sprawling collection of over 500 entries for more than 30 years. The work within varies from brief aphorisms of a line or two to lengthy pieces of several pages. Much of this mammoth, often labyrinthine, work, which is spoken by several different personas including a shepherd and a bookkeeper, went unpublished during his lifetime. This is a definitive work of international modernism.
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