Name: Pessoa: an Experimental Life — in conversation with Richard Zenith
Start: 2022-10-24T17:00:00+01:00
End: 2022-10-24T18:30:00+01:00
Location: John Smith's Bookshop (Fraser Building, University of Glasgow)

Pessoa: an Experimental Life — in conversation with Richard Zenith

Camões Institute @ Portuguese Studies (Glasgow)

Fernando Pessoa Unmasked?
Biographer Richard Zenith, in conversation with Luís Gomes

John Smith's Bookshop (Fraser Building, University of Glasgow)

Zenith's Pessoa: an Experimental Life, a finalist of the <a href="https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/richard-zenith" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography</a>, 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.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 <a href="https://www.js-glasgow.co.uk/offers/14727/richard-zenith-pessoa" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.js-glasgow.co.uk/offers/14727/richard-zenith-pessoa</a>NEW LOCATION: John Smith's Bookstore (Fraser Building, University of Glasgow). For contact and location details (including accessibility maps), see <a href="https://www.js-glasgow.co.uk/contact-us" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.js-glasgow.co.uk/contact-us</a>.T﻿his is the first appearance of a week-long UK tour. For details of nationwide events, see <a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/events/listings/index.html/event/12662" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.gla.ac.uk/events/listings/index.html/event/12662</a>

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