| Description |
xii, 81 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Language |
Translated from the Portuguese. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-81). |
| Contents |
About the Baron of Teive / by Francoise Laye -- About this edition / by Richard Zenith -- The Education of the stoic -- Appendix. The Duel -- Three pessimists -- Leopardi -- In the garden of Epictetus -- The Man from Porlock -- The Impersonation of a stoic / by Antonio Tabucchi -- Postmortem / Richard Zenith. |
| Summary |
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 noted that despite their dialectical differences, the middle-class author of The Book of Disquiet (assistant bookkeeper Bernardo Soares) and the aristocrat Teive, "are two instances of the very same phenomenon--an inability to adapt to real life." |
| Subject |
Pessimism.
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Civilization, Modern.
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Arts, Modern.
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Portuguese literature -- Essays.
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| Added Author |
Zenith, Richard.
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| ISBN |
1878972405 |
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9781878972408 |
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