{"product_id":"complete-works-of-ricardo-reis","title":"Complete Works of Ricardo Reis","description":"\u003ch1\u003eComplete Works of Ricardo Reis\u003c\/h1\u003eFernando Pessoa,Fernando Pessoa\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003eMay 5 2026\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9780811237895\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 0811237893\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: Here is the fourth in a series of volumes by Fernando Pessoa's celebrated \"heteronyms.\" Fernando Pessoa did not simply write under pseudonyms--he created a coterie of imagined authors, each with a fully realized biography, distinct temperament, singular style, and governing philosophy. Among them, Ricardo Reis stands as the most poised and classical presence in this literary cosmos: an exiled monarchist physician, and avowed Hellenist who answers modern restlessness with lucid form, stoic restraint, and a pagan sense of measure. Reis contemplates the world as if it were a chessboard--serene, exacting, unsentimental. His odes move among jugs of wine, ivy leaves, destiny, and the austere pleasure of self-command, yet beneath their composure runs a quiet existential unease--the intuition that \"within us live innumerable others.\" Born in the early twentieth century, between the rise of Cubism and the emergence of Dada, Ricardo Reis embodies antiquity within modernity--his paradoxical poise marking a distinctly modern classicism. Based on the definitive Tinta-da-china edition (Portugal) and introduced by Jerónimo Pizarro, this bilingual volume--beautifully translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari--reveals Pessoa's most measured voice: intellectually rigorous, emotionally contained, and quietly radical in its resistance to the noise of its age. The Complete Works of Ricardo Reis is a must-have collection by Pessoa's most refined heteronym.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67392048955437,"sku":"WHS-b2c61d1ac4234da3afd9b55f09d33092","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_05991826-940e-4420-bbe9-ba54c1bd99bb.jpg?v=1787359537","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/complete-works-of-ricardo-reis","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}