Getting Ready to Exist
Adam Phillips, 17 July 1997
A Centenary Pessoa
edited by Eugénio Lisboa and L.C. Taylor.
Carcanet, 335 pp., £25, May 1995,9780856359361 Show More
edited by Eugénio Lisboa and L.C. Taylor.
Carcanet, 335 pp., £25, May 1995,
The Keeper of Sheep
by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Edwin Honig and Susan Brown.
Sheep Meadow, 135 pp., $12.95, September 1997,1 878818 45 7 Show More
by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Edwin Honig and Susan Brown.
Sheep Meadow, 135 pp., $12.95, September 1997,
The Book of Disquietude
by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Richard Zenith.
Carcanet, 323 pp., £9.95, January 1997,1 85754 301 7 Show More
by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Richard Zenith.
Carcanet, 323 pp., £9.95, January 1997,
“... his translators – Jonathan Griffin in the Penguin Selected Poems, Keith Bosley, Richard Zenith, Edwin Honig, Susan Brown – seems to prompt curiously unguarded responses in his readers. ‘I’m the living stage,’ his narrator Soares writes, ‘where various actors act out various plays.’ His work casts more than a ... ”
