Pessoa: An Experimental Life - In Conversation With Biographer Richard Zenith
Join Luís Gomes, Lecturer of Portuguese at the University of Glasgow, as he discusses Zenith's Pessoa: an Experimental Life, a finalist of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography.
About Pessoa: An Experimental Life - In Conversation With Biographer Richard Zenith
Zenith's Pessoa: an Experimental Life, a finalist of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, has been called "one of the great literary biographies of the century" by Simon Winchester (in The New Statesman).
In conversation with Luís Gomes, Lecturer of Portuguese at the University of Glasgow, Zenith will discuss Pessoa's experiments in literature, politics, sexuality, and spirituality. He will talk as well about his method for drawing a portrait of the shy office worker lurking behind the many personae he called heteronyms.
We’ll also be asking what led Fernando Pessoa, in 1914 Lisbon, to create a direct connection with Glasgow through Álvaro de Campos, Pessoa's most outrageous modernist heteronym par excellence, to whom Pessoa ascribed his formative years studying Engineering at Glasgow's Naval College.
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STOP PRESS! John Smith's Bookstore is kindly offering a discount (with free UK postage) on purchases of Richard Zenith's biography of Fernando Pessoa -- Pessoa: an Experimental Life (London: Penguin, 2022). Details from the bookstore's website www.js-glasgow.co.uk
This is the first event of a week-long UK tour. For details of related events nationwide, see www.gla.ac.uk
Kindly supported by the Camões Institute I.P.
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