The Garden of Earthly Delights (1490-1500)
No geology is neutral
I imagine the material presence of the language in space
her political insights shrewd and often against the grain
a place scarred by centuries of colonialism and now the ravages of feckless developers
Fernando Pessoa: The Book of Disquiet Natasha Brown The Garden of Earthly DelightsPenguin Modern Classics, 2002, softcover, 544 pages, 12. 8 x 19. 5 cm A modernist masterwork that has now taken on a similar iconic status to Ulysses, The Trial or In Search of Lost Time, Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquietis edited and translated with an introduction by Richard Zenith in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Fernando Pessoa, strictly speaking, doesn't exist,' so claimed Alvaro de Campos, one of the 'heteronyms', fully realised substitute