“Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa, the son of Maria Madalena Pinheiro Nogueira and Joaquim de Seabra Pessoa, was born at no. 4, fourth floor, Largo de São Carlos at 3.20 in the afternoon of 13th June, 1888. He was to live there until the age of five and it is of these surrondings that he kept the most important memoires that he later referred to as the happiest part of his childhood. As an adult, in his writing, he returned countless times to references that could easily be aligned with a past whose conditioning factores are very much archetypal for those of this period and geographic zone.” by Marina Tavares Dias
Following the sucess of the editions dedicated to Lisbon, from which stands out the collections Lisboa Desaparecida and Lisboa de Eça de Queiroz, Quimera publishes (in Portuguese and English) a tour through Lisbon in Fernando Pessoa’s footsteps, guided by the author Marina Tavares Dias.
Profusely illustrated with picturesand postcards of that time, Pessoa’s addresses and working places are visited together with the coffe-shops and streets of the city that sheltered him throughout his life.
As usually in Marina Tavares Dias works, the reader is guided through an elegant and bright writing which, deviating from the complexity of the essay writing, never neglects the documental rigour, inviting the reader to an interesting tour through Lisbon now known through the life and work of the poet.
