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Detalhes do Produto
- Editora: Exact Change
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- Ano: 2006
- ISBN: 9781878972408
Sinopse
"I transferred to Teive my speculations on certainty, which lunatics have in greater abundance than anyone." Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) was a multitude of writers: his works were composed by "heteronyms," alter egos with distinct biographies, ideologies, influences, even horoscopes. The Education of the Stoic is the only work left by the Baron of Teive, who, having destroyed all his previous attempts at literary creation, and about to destroy himself, explains "the impossibility of producing superior art." The baron´s manuscript is found in a hotel-room drawer - not unlike editor and translator Richard Zenith´s own discovery, while conducting research in the Pessoa archives, of a small black notebook whose contents had never been transcribed. In it he found the missing pieces of this short but trenchant complement to Pessoa´s major prose work, The Book of Disquiet. Pessoa himself…
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