Fernando pessoa 18881935, the portuguese poet, literary critic, and essayist, is one of the most significant literary figures of the twentieth century. But no, shes abstract, is a bird, of sound in the air of air soaring, and her soul sings unencumbered, because the songs what makes her sing. Later his mother maria madalena nogueira pessoa, married the portuguese consul in durban in south africa, and the family lived from 1896. Fernando pessoa is surely the most important 20th century portuguese poet. Fernando pessoa is portugals most important contemporary poet. The book of disquiet, written by fernando pessoa, a portuguese poet, is considered an early classic of existential writing. Selected poems ebook by fernando pessoa rakuten kobo. The transformation book provides significant insight.
Now richard zenith has collected in a single volume all the major poetry of one of the most extraordinary poetic talents the century has produced microsoft networks. Born in 1888, fernando pessoa is widxely considered portugals greatest modern poet and author. See more ideas about fernando pessoa, words and quotes. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Illustration by riccardo vecchio if ever there was a writer in flight from his name, it was fernando pessoa. Fernando pessoa gutenberg publisher series librarything. Pessoa died at the age of forty seven in the year 1935. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg.
He wrote under several identities, which he called heteronyms. This is a considerable feat if one considers other 20th century poets like. He wrote fine poetry under his own name as well, and each of his voices is completely different in subject, temperament, and style. In lisbon there are a few restaurants or eating houses located above decentlooking taverns, places with the heavy, domestic look of restaurants in towns far from any rail line. For its entire four hundred plus pages it offers a philosophy of a melancholic life, a philosophy of dreaming, and a philosophy of art. A modernist masterwork that has now taken on a similar iconic status to ulysses, the trial or in search of lost time, fernando pessoas the book of disquiet is. Fernando pessoa 18881935 sonnets 1918, english poems 1922 and mensagem 1934.
He also wrote in and translated from english and french. The statement is possible since pessoa, whose name means person in portuguese, had three alter egos who. Published posthumously, the book of disquiet is a fragmentary. This includes twenty five thousand pages of typed and manuscript pages. The book is an aggregation of disparate diary entries that are abstract, dense, and at times, eccentric.
When he died in 1935, pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable pages that make up his posthumous masterpiece, the book of disquiet, an astonishing work that, in george steiners words, gives to lisbon the haunting spell of joyces dublin or kafkas prague. It is sometimes said that the four greatest portuguese poets of modern times are fernando pessoa. He moved to durban, south africa, as a child, becoming bilingual portuguese, english. Compiled by the translator richard zenith, fernando pessoas the book of disquiet is a fulgent tribute to the imagination of man. Fernando pessoa s books fernando pessoa average rating. Fernando antonio nogueira pessoa was born in lisbon. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa if you read this, you need to know what you are signing up for, so, below, ill let pessoa speak for himself. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the us or from the uk, depending on stock availability. Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no kindle device required. Fernando pessoa and the multiple faces we show on the net. He left behind a legacy of heavy burden on the shoulders of publishers to edit his huge unfinished and unpublished work. However much we give our thoughts the will to be our soul and gesture it abroad, our hearts are incommunicable still. Buy the book of disquiet penguin modern classics new ed by pessoa, fernando, zenith, richard isbn.
Like im sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything. He earned his living as a writer of foreign correspodence for business firms, as a translator and horoscope seller. Fernando pessoa books list of books by author fernando. Books by fernando pessoa author of the book of disquiet. Imagination, reality and the pleasure of masking and dreaming rodica grigore1 the portuguese writer fernando pessoa complicates the idea of fictionality, by underscoring the fact that the personality of soares the fictional author of the book of disquiet is neither his own nor com. Pessoa, fernando, 18881935, pessoa, fernando, 18881935 publisher. Fernando pessoa poems poems of fernando pessoa poem. What we are cannot be transfused into word or book, our soul from us is infinitely far. I have recently finished the anthology contos escolhidos, comprising ten of his short stories. Common knowledge publisher series fernando pessoa gutenberg. Published posthumously, the book of disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a factless autobiography.
Im always speaking banally to someone, with a contrived smile on my face. The book of disquiet is a work by the portuguese author fernando pessoa 1888 1935. Pessoa was a prolific writer, and not only under his own name, for he dreamed up approximately seventyfive others. Fernando pessoa, one of the most original poets of european modernism, was born in lisbon on the th june 1888. Ive been drawn to existentialism which i understand to be the recognition that life lacks meaning, rendering the human condition a function of mere existence since reading sartre, camus and kierkegaard years ago. The writing of fernando pessoa reveals a mind shaken by intense inner suffering. The narrator, perhaps a standin for pessoa himself, is clearly a distant literary relative of shakespeares hamlet or eliots prufrock. Livro do desassossego the book of disquiet, fernando pessoa the book of disquiet is a work by the portuguese author fernando pessoa 18881935. The book of disquiet was found, in fragments, only after pessoa s death. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. They are mainly characterised by being quite philosophical and sometimes even featuring esoteric. Fall 2015 603 awell eknownpoetonceaskedmeifiwoulddohimthefavoroftransl ating.
Contos escolhidos by fernando pessoa a bag full of stories. He spent much of his childhood in durban, south africa, returning to lisbon at the age of seventeen. Buy poems of fernando pessoa reprint by pessoa, fernando, honig, edwin isbn. Disquiet refers to a feeling of anxiety, and this story has plenty of unease for both its narrator and readers. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa is one such modern masterpiece that i read last week. The critic harold bloom considers fernando pessoa along with pablo neruda the most representative poet of the 20th century. His book of disquiet a collection of incomplete writings found on loose scraps of paper and published nearly 50 years after pessoas death makes for sleepless, existential reading. The book of disquiet penguin classics pessoa, fernando, zenith, richard, zenith, richard on. Fernando pessoa 18881935 a poet who lived most his life in lisbon, portugal, and who died in obscurity there has in recent years gained international recognition as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Fernando pessoas the book of disquiet is aptly titled. A modernist masterwork that has now taken on a similar iconic status to ulysses, the trial or in search of lost time, fernando pessoas the book of disquiet is edited and translated with an introduction by richard zenith in penguin modern classics. Autopsychography by fernando pessoa poetry magazine.
Fernando pessoa poems by the famous poet all poetry. In 1905 he left for south africa with his mother and stepfather who had been appointed portuguese consul in durban. The book of disquiet also translated as the book of disquietude has a format somewhat like a journal or diary and is also a collection of vignettes and reflections. Fernando pessoa was a great portuguese poet and writer, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the best poets in the portuguese language. His father died when pessoa was five years old, and the family moved with his mothers new husband, a consul, to durban, south africa, where pessoa attended an english school. This book provides ample evidence of his fruitful, lifelong relationship with the english language. Fernando pessoa has 736 books on goodreads with 163055 ratings. Fernando pessoa the writer university fernando pessoa. At thirteen pessoa returned to portugal for a yearlong visit, and returned there permanently in 1905.
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