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The Keeper of Sheep (O Guardador de Rebanhos)
Fernando Pessoa; Edwin Honig, trs.; Susan M. Brown, trs.
Sheep Meadow Press
1997 • 137 pp. 6 x 9"
Poetry / Literature & Language-Spanish & Portuguese
$12.95 Paper, 978-1-878818-45-4
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Endorsements:
"The mask of innocence which Pessoa turns to us is not that of wisdom: to be wise is to resign ourself to the knowledge that we are not innocent. Pessoa, who did know it, was nearer to wisdom."—Octavio Paz
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FERNANDO PESSOA was born in Lisbon in 1888. As a young man, he dropped out of university and made his living by translating, writing in avant-garde reviews, and drafting business letters in English and French. He began publishing criticism in 1912, creative prose in 1913, and poetry in 1914. He published his works under a variety of alter egos he called heteronyms—Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, and Álvaro de Campos, and nearly seventy others. He died in Lisbon, in 1935.
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