Fernando pessoa is portugals most important contemporary poet. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Fernando pessoa 18881935 foi um dos mais importantes poetas. For its entire four hundred plus pages it offers a philosophy of a melancholic life, a philosophy of dreaming, and a philosophy of art. Published posthumously, the book of disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a factless autobiography. The book is an aggregation of disparate diary entries that are abstract, dense, and at times, eccentric. He wrote under several identities, which he called heteronyms. 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. To give good advice is to disdain the faculty of erring that god gave to others. Fernando pessoa xxi illustration done for adverting, year 2016 fernando. Fernando pessoa, one of the greatest portuguese poets, whose modernist work gave portuguese literature european significance. We personally assess every books quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures. Fernando pessoa and the multiple faces we show on the net. His book of disquiet a collection of incomplete writings found on loose scraps of.
In edwin honigs and susan browns superb translations, pessoa and his others live with miraculous style and vitality. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa book chat duration. He wrote fine poetry under his own name as well, and each of his voices is completely different in subject, temperament, and style. Buy poems of fernando pessoa reprint by fernando pessoa, edwin honig isbn. Fernando pessoa june 1888 november was a portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices. What do you want to tell you more than love, if you want to tell you.
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 completely different, and showing how pessoa was constrained by his own creations and creativity. Fernando pessoa quotes author of the book of disquiet. We deliver the joy of reading in 100% recycled packaging with free standard shipping on u. Follow fernando pessoa and explore their bibliography from s fernando pessoa author page. Portuguese literary and cultural studies 28 fernando pessoa as english. 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. Livro do desassossego the book of disquiet, fernando pessoa the book of disquiet is a work by the portuguese author fernando pessoa 18881935. This volume brings back into print the comprehensive collection of. Confira alguns poemas e poesias frutos do seu trabalho. Poems of fernando pessoa by fernando pessoa, paperback. The transformation book provides significant insight. Like there are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
Veja mais ideias sobre fernando pessoa, ricardo reis e frases fernando pessoa. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Cardiello fernando pessoa, poeta e pensador pessoa plural. Phenomenal woman, still i rise, the road not taken, if you forget me, dreams. The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd the longing for. The book of disquiet penguin classics pessoa, fernando, zenith, richard, zenith, richard on. June, 1888 november 30, 1935, was a portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the portuguese. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa is one such modern masterpiece that i read last week. I do not know reason to love you more than love you. 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. The book of disquiet, written by fernando pessoa, a portuguese poet, is considered an early classic of existential writing.
Pessoa is the exemplary poet of the self as other, of the poem as testament to unreality, proclamation of nothingness, occasion for expectancy. He is described as being one of greatest poets in the portuguese language. Full text of fernando pessoa as english reader and writer. Fernando pessoas the book of disquiet is aptly titled. Fernando pessoa books list of books by author fernando. Jose barreto fernando pessoa racionalista, livrepensador e individualista. Pdf fernando pessoa racionalista, livrepensador e individualista. Fernando pessoa poems poems of fernando pessoa poem. 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. 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. The book of disquiet is funny, lifeaffirming, and, of course, desperately sad.
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