"Lyrical, poetic-but to call these paragraphs prose poems would be misleading. "Nobody can render the the hollowed horror of a world wrung out quite as gorgeously as Pessoa." - Bookforum Arguably, the four greatest poets in the Portuguese language were all Pessoa using different names." "Pessoa’s work The Book of Disquiet is one of life’s great miracles. "One of the central figures of European modernism." - Max Nelson, The New York Review of Books "As addictive, and endearing, as Borges and Calvino." - The Washington Post Book World A modern masterpiece." - Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker "The ultimate futility of all accomplishment, the fascination of loneliness, the way sorrow colors our perception of the world: Pessoa’s insight into his favorite themes was purchased at a high price, but he wouldn’t have had it any other way. "As searing as Rilke or Mandelstam." - The New York Times Book Review "A triumph of scholarship and translation." - Marcela Valdes, Publisher Weekly (Starred Review) "Endlessly ponderable." - Electric Literature
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