Electronic Book Review have just published Manuel Portela's Writing as a Life Form: A Review of Richard Zenith’s Pessoa: A Biography (2021).

Extract: 'For Fernando Pessoa, as for the roughly 600 texts that make up his Book of Disquiet, and the estimated 136 homonyms that Pessoa inhabits in his own writing, there "is life, and there is writing, and they must remain immiscible." ...

What is it like to live non-narratively?... Not necessarily through the chaotic dissolution of a unified consciousness, but through a surplus of subjectivity, by a relentless multiplication of possibilities.'

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