FERNANDO PESSOA THE POET WITH MANY FACES

a primeira biografia inglesa de fernando pessoa, um escritor universal cuja obra e história de vida ficam agora ao alcance de muitos milhares de leitores. the poet with many faces é a primeira biografia inglesa de fernando pessoa. escrito na década de 1970, o livro deveria ter sido impresso em 1974, mas a revolução dos cravos interrompeu os planos editoriais. o dactiloscrito, encontrado numa garagem em joanesburgo, na áfrica do sul, é agora enfim publicado. inclui imagens e uma antologia da poesia pessoana fernando pessoa is not easy to get to know. even during his lifetime his friends remarked on a certain quicksilver quality about him that made it appear as though he was always slipping through their hands [...]. there still remains the barrier of his reticences, his pudor and his sensitivity and the constant retreat behind the masks by which he could both conceal and reveal. [...] we join him in his search for self-identity. perhaps because we feel it is a search for our own self-identity. or it may be a game. or a ritual. or a religion. it can be any of these according to how the puckish spirit of fernando pessoa rules. —hubert d. jennings