The Washington Post, July 22nd, 2001
THE SELECTED PROSE OF FERNANDO PESSOA Edited and Translated by Richard Zenith Grove. 342 pp. $24 Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is generally regarded as Portugal's greatest writer of the 20th century. Some critics would even leave off that last qualifying prepositional phrase. Be that as it may, he is certainly one of the most appealing European modernists, equal in command and range to his contemporaries Rilke and Mandelstam. But while most writers strive mightily to discover their individual and distinctive authorial voice, Pessoa refused to narrow himself this way: Instead he invented a series...
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