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  • The Book of Disquiet

    by Fernando Pessoa ...
    Translated by Richard Zenith ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet is a modernist masterwork that has now taken on a similar iconic status to Ulysses, The Trial or In Search of Lost Time. This complete and unabridged edition – published in Penguin Modern Classics - is edited and translated with an introduction by Richard Zenith'The best English-language version we are likely to see for a long time, if ever' - The Guardian<e. ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Pessoa

    A Biography

    by Richard Zenith ...
    Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (Biography)New York Times • Times Critics Top Books of 2021New York Times Book Review • Editors’ ChoiceKirkus Reviews • Best Nonfiction of the YearLike Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce, Richard Zenith’s Pessoa immortalizes the life of one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers.Nearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fe... ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Fernando Pessoa & Co.

    Selected Poems

    by Fernando Pessoa ...
    Translated by Richard Zenith ...
    The first comprehensive English translation of poetry from the renowned Portuguese author of The Book of Disquiet: "An arresting . . . body of work" ( Newsday).Born in 1888, Fernando Pessoa is widxely considered Portugal's greatest modern poet and author. With an introduction that illuminates the life and work of this elusive literary giant, Fernando Pessoa & Co. is the most comprehensive and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe

    Selected Poems

    by Fernando Pessoa, RICHARD Zenith ...
    Translated by RICHARD Zenith ...
    The largest and richest English-language volume of poetry from “the greatest twentieth-century writer you have never heard of” (Los Angeles Times)―now thoroughly revised and updatedEdited, Translated, and with an Introduction by Richard Zenith, the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Pessoa: A BiographyA Penguin ClassicWriting obsessively in French, English, and Portuguese, poet Fernando Pessoa ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Education by Stone

    by Joao Cabral De Melo Neto ...
    Translated by RICHARD Zenith ...
    Imagine making poems the way an architect designs buildings or an engineer builds bridges. Such was the ambition of João Cabral de Melo Neto. Though a great admirer of the thing-rich poetries of Francis Ponge and of Marianne Moore, what interested him even more, as he remarked in his acceptance speech for the 1992 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, was "the exploration of the materiality ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Implacable Order of Things

    A Novel

    by Jose Luis Peixoto ...
    Translated by RICHARD Zenith ...
    Winner of the José Saramago Literary AwardIn an unnamed Portuguese village, against a backdrop of severe rural poverty, two generations of men and women struggle with love, violence, death, and—perhaps worst of all—the inescapability of fate.A pair of twins conjoined at the pinky, a 120-year-old wise man, a shepherd turned cuckold by a giant, and even the Devil himself make up the unforgettably ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Cantigas

    Galician-Portuguese Troubadour Poems

    by Richard Zenith ...
    Series series The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
    A bilingual volume that reveals an intriguing world of courtly love and satire in medieval Portugal and SpainThe rich tradition of troubadour poetry in western Iberia had all but vanished from history until the discovery of several ancient cancioneiros, or songbooks, in the nineteenth century. These compendiums revealed close to 1,700 songs, or cantigas, composed by around 150 troubadours from ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Audiobook

    Pessoa

    by Richard Zenith ...
    Narrated by Nigel Patterson ...

    Unabridged

    42 hours 45 min

    Like Richard Ellmann's James Joyce, Richard Zenith's Pessoa (a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography) immortalizes the life of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.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 ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa

    by Fernando Pessoa ...
    The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa is a deeply introspective and fragmentary work that defies traditional narrative structures, offering instead a mosaic of reflections on identity, solitude, dreams, and the elusive nature of reality. Written under the heteronym Bernardo Soares, the book presents a semi-fictional diary filled with philosophical musings, emotional detachment, and lyrical prose ... Read more

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  • The Walk

    by Robert Walser ...
    Series series Serpent's Tail Classics
    Ranging from one-page fantasies to novella-length studies of everyday existence, The Walk reveals the irresistible genius of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Under-appreciated even in his own lifetime, Robert Walser has nonetheless been recognised by such writers as W.G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, Franz Kafka, Herman Hesse and J.M. Coetzee.Like Kafka and Sebald, Walser wrote about the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Rebel

    An Essay on Man in Revolt

    by Albert Camus ...
    Series series Vintage International
    By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution that resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times.For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as ... Read more

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  • Journey to the End of the Night

    by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, William T. Vollmann ...
    Translated by Ralph Manheim ...
    Céline’s masterpiece—colloquial, polemic, hyper-realistic, boiling over with black humorCéline’s masterpiece—colloquial, polemic, hyper realistic—boils over with bitter humor and revulsion at society’s idiocy and hypocrisy: Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of cruelty and violence that hurtles through the improbable travels of the petit bourgeois (and largely autobiographical) ... Read more

    $12.29 USD