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Nearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) remains one of our most enigmatic writers. Believing he could do "more in dreams than Napoleon," yet haunted by the specter of hereditary madness, Pessoa invented dozens of alter egos, or "heteronyms," under whose names he wrote in Portuguese, English, and French. Unsurprisingly, this "most multifarious of writers" (Guardian) has long eluded a definitive biographer—but in renowned translator and Pessoa scholar Richard Zenith, he has met his match.

Considerado uno de los mayores poetas y escritores de la lengua portuguesa y de la literatura europea, su enigmática vida, su forma descarnada de ver el mundo y la forma de sus versos han motivado el asombro de los críticos y la aceptación de un mundo poético nuevo “su mundo”, en el que Pessoa se desdobló en varias personalidades conocidas como heterónimos.