Books by pessoa, fernando sorted by popularity project. Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile. In the preface to the book of disquiet, pessoa wrote about himself. Books by pessoa, fernando sorted by popularity project gutenberg. On the face of it, a patriotic sequence steeped in sebastianismo, the poems offer much more than this, the kings and navigators of the portugals history standing as avatars of the poets self, their explorations and heroic deeds projections of the poets inner creative life. The book is an aggregation of disparate diary entries that are abstract, dense, and at times, eccentric. It is sometimes said that the four greatest portuguese poets of modern ti. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices. He takes a simple gesture, a familiar place and transforms it magically into something more. Fernando antonio nogueira pessoa was a poet and writer. Sineokov, who had drowned at just that spot in the city river. Published posthumously, the book of disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a factless autobiography.
For its entire four hundred plus pages it offers a philosophy of a melancholic life, a philosophy of dreaming, and a philosophy of art. This heteronym was created by fernando pessoa as an alter ego who inherited his role from alexander search and this one from charles robert anon. Fernando pessoa nas letras, tampouco isso ocorreu com um texto teorico. In the course of his short literary career, a large part of which was developed in paris, he created a collection of literary works that was broad in terms of the literary genres they encompassed, and very innovative for his time, in the context of the literature written in portuguese. Jul 01, 2015 although an encounter between jorge luis borges 18991986 and fernando pessoa 18881935 seems unlikely, the possibility is real enough. By bernardo soares, assistant bookkeeper in the city of lisbon. Message mensagem was the only book of verse in his own language that pessoa saw through the press in his lifetime.
Fernando pessoa poems by the famous poet all poetry. Saggi sulla lingua by pessoa, fernando and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Fernando pessoa books list of books by author fernando pessoa. Fernando pessoa, 1888 1935 portuguese poet fernando pessoa was born in lisbon. He also wrote in and translated from english and french. All this is printed in very small type in a book whose binding is already coming apart. Review alessandro rodrigues rocha 2012 horizonte 10 25. This imaginary author was a shepherd who spent most of his. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Fernando antonio nogueira pessoa 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 language.
The selected prose of fernando pessoa is an important record of a crucial part of the literary canon. Zeniths selection is beautifully translated, compact while appropriately diverse. He did not call them all pseudonyms because he felt that some did not. A bilingual companion to the book of disquiet, by fernando pessoa here. 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. Get book recommendations, fiction, poetry, and dispatches from the world of literature. He is distinguished as the most momentous literary figure of the 20th century who played a major role in the development of modernism in his country. Fernando pessoa has 733 books on goodreads with 162030 ratings. Mario sacramento, fernando pessoa, poeta da hora absurda. The latter was created when pessoa lived in durban, while search was created in 1906, when pessoa was a student at lisbons university, in search of his portuguese cultural identity, after his return from durban. What followed was a collection of some of fernando pessoas greatest poems, grouped under the titles the keeper of sheep, the shepherd in love, and uncollected poems. Pancracio, um pseudonimo seu, publicava charadas em numeros subsequentes. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the us or from the uk, depending on stock availability.
Pessoas rapid prose, snatched in flight and restlessly suggestive, remains haunting, often startling, like the touch of a vibrating wire, elusive and persistent like the poetry. Life pains me bit by bit, in sips, through interstices. Follow fernando pessoa and explore their bibliography from s fernando pessoa author page. The washington post book world has written that fernando pessoa was portugals greatest writer of the twentieth century though some critics would even leave off that last qualifying phrase and one of the most appealing european modernists, equal in command and range to his contemporaries rilke and mandelstam. Although an encounter between jorge luis borges 18991986 and fernando pessoa 18881935 seems unlikely, the possibility is real enough. Book of disquiet reveals a reclusive authors soul author fernando pessoa may have been a loner who lived most of his life in a single room in.
You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the. During this time, pessoa became fluent in english and was educated in cape town and lisbon. Fernando pessoa books list of books by author fernando. Fernando antonio nogueira pessoa was born in lisbon.
Bernando soares, the eponymous author of the book of disquiet, a bookkeeper in lisbon, records his observations of everyday life as if we were walking through an art gallery. Fernando pessoa, one of the greatest portuguese poets, whose modernist work gave portuguese literature european significance. He also wrote short essays, several of which remained unfinished. We deliver the joy of reading in 100% recycled packaging with free standard shipping on u. Buy poems of fernando pessoa reprint by fernando pessoa, edwin honig isbn. Books by fernando pessoa author of the book of disquiet. Books dont change the world, people change the world, books only change people. Fernando antonio nogueira pessoa was a portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator. Fernando pessoa quotes author of the book of disquiet. Fernando pessoa, recognized as the greatest poet of the portuguese language was born on th of june 1888 in lisbon, portugal. 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. 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. 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 disquiet is edited and translated with an introduction by richard zenith in penguin modern classics.
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. Dec 25, 2009 book of disquiet reveals a reclusive authors soul author fernando pessoa may have been a loner who lived most of his life in a single room in lisbon, portugal. His father died when he was young and his mother married the portuguese consul in durban in south africa where they lived from 1896 to 1951. During may and june in 1924, borges, a few months shy of his twentyfifth birthday, visited for six weeks with his parents and sister the city of lisbon, city that pessoa, then thirtysix years old, had been living in ever since he returned from south. Apicapic in the book of disquiet, bernardo soares, an assistant bookkeeper in a lisbon fabrics firm, records impressions he doesnt expect to see. We personally assess every book s quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures. Mistica e angustia em fernando pessoa mystique and anguish in the work of fernando pessoa doi. During the nineteentwenties, pessoa set the book aside, turning his attention to poetry and indulging a lifelong fascination with occultism and astrology. Later his mother maria madalena nogueira pessoa, married the portuguese consul in durban in south africa, and the family lived from 1896. He is one of the best known authors of the geracao dorpheu, and is usually considered their greatest poet, after fernando pessoa. New directions publishing the complete works of alberto. Topics pessoa, fernando, 18881935 publisher lisboa contraponto collection robarts. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa is one such modern masterpiece that i read last week.
Pessoa was a prolific writer, and not only under his own name, for he created approximately seventyfive others. The complete works of alberto caeiro new directions publishing. Pessoa died at the age of forty seven in the year 1935. Was 18 march 1914 the most extraordinary date in modern literature. Apicapic in the book of disquiet, bernardo soares, an assistant bookkeeper in a lisbon fabrics. Fernando pessoa 18881935, the portuguese poet, literary critic, and essayist, is one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century. The book of disquiet is the portuguese modernist master fernando pessoas. Fernando pessoa you dont make a photograph just with a camera.
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