Quaresma, Descifrador - by Fernando Pessoa Paperback

About the Book

Fernando Pessoa's passion for the detective genre is well documented in his writings: "One of the few intellectual diversions that persists in what remains of humanity's intellectual life is the reading of detective novels. Among the inestimable and small number of happy hours that Life allows me to spend, I consider the best year to be the one that allows me to spend hours engrossed, head and heart, in the readings of Conan Doyle or Arthur Morrison. Perhaps it is a source of surprise, not that these are my favorite and bedside authors, but that I confess that they are." For readers who share the Portuguese writer's love of the detective genre, this edition collects all of Pessoa's detective novels, written throughout his life and which he himself compiled under the title Quaresma, Decipherer.

About the Author

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), poeta y ensayista, se ha convertido, con una obra tan heterodoxa como extensa, en una de las cimas literarias de todos los tiempos. Publicó en vida poemas y ensayos literarios en diferentes revistas de vanguardia, y pasó sus días anónimamente como traductor de cartas para distintas empresas de Lisboa. En Acantilado han aparecido Libro del desasosiego (2002, nueva edición ampliada en 2013), Crítica: ensayos, artículos y entrevistas (2003), La hora del diablo (2003), La educación del estoico (2005), El regreso de los dioses (2006), Escritos sobre genio y locura (2013), Quaresma, descifrador (2014) y El mendigo y otros cuentos (2019).