{"product_id":"the-complete-works-of-ricardo-reis","title":"The Complete Works of Ricardo Reis","description":"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.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67930714341608,"sku":"9780811237895","price":18.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/9539\/3512\/files\/imageloader_85b01d6f-6c36-49d6-9a69-5d4fd021f2ab.jpg?v=1792270530","url":"https:\/\/shop.kuumba.app\/products\/the-complete-works-of-ricardo-reis","provider":"Kuumba","version":"1.0","type":"link"}