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Fernando pessoa gutenberg publisher series librarything. He returned to lisbon in 1905 and worked as a clerk in an importexport company until his death in 1935. Fernando pessoas book of disquiet is a map of selfawareness and dreaming, of living to write. The book is an aggregation of disparate diary entries that are abstract, dense, and at times, eccentric. His father died of tuberculosis when he was only 2 years old and his mother remarried. Non e facile, non sempre condivisibile nella sua visione sociale decisamente conservatrice ma alla fine ti ritrovi arricchito e commosso. Books by fernando pessoa fernando pessoa average rating 4. 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 first came out in portugal in 1982. 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. This fragmentary novel was published 47 years after the death of 20thcentury portuguese author and poet fernando pessoa. Published posthumously, the book of disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a factless autobiography. Poems of fernando pessoa by fernando pessoa, paperback. Fernando pessoa, one of the greatest portuguese poets, whose modernist work.
Shipping may be from multiple locations in the us or from the uk, depending on stock availability. 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. Lisbon, the casa fernando pessoa and the pessoa estate. Fernando pessoa biography childhood, life achievements. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa is one such modern masterpiece that i read last week. This volume brings back into print the comprehensive collection of. 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. Fernando pessoa books list of books by author fernando. He wrote under several identities, which he called heteronyms. Apicapic in the book of disquiet, bernardo soares, an assistant bookkeeper in a lisbon fabrics. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices. This is a considerable feat if one considers other 20th century poets like. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. 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.
Pessoa sailed with his mother to south africa to join his step father, who was a military officer from portugal stationed in durban. Fernando pessoa, recognized as the greatest poet of the portuguese language was born on th of june 1888 in lisbon, portugal. Buy poems of fernando pessoa reprint by pessoa, fernando, honig, edwin isbn. Was 18 march 1914 the most extraordinary date in modern literature. The philosophy behind the project was to demonstrate the affectation that pessoa had for books and their symbolic value, and to open up the collections, which were purchased by the portuguese government in 1993 and deposited in the casa fernando pessoa, for research. 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 prolific writer, ascribing his work to a variety of personas or heteronyms, pessoa published little in his lifetime and. 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. He wrote fine poetry under his own name as well, and each of his voices is completely different in subject, temperament, and style. Thus i began the book that would be published in lisbon, in 1988, as. Published for the first time some fifty years after his death, this unique collection of short, aphoristic paragraphs comprises the autobiography of bernardo soares, one of pessoas alternate. Fernando pessoa tempo, solidao, hermetismo by stephen. Most of pessoa\\s writing was not published during his lifetime. Imagination, reality and the pleasure of masking and dreaming explores the implications of the heteronyms that the author created in order both to express and hide himself from the external world. In fact, the book stayed with pessoa himself, discovered after his death in a trunk full of thousands of unpublished pages and not. 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. Letto in portoghese, il suo pensiero non e solo profondo, ma musicale e poetico. Number of visitors of the poets mainpage in poemhunter.
From what i understand this book is a collection of prose snippets from over 40 years that were compiled after the portuguese poets death. Mensagem by fernando pessoa mensagem in portuguese is a very unusual twentieth century book. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. Fernando pessoa is portugals most important contemporary poet. Soaress book of disquietude, a limited and limiting demarcation either of time or space is not. Fernando pessoa on writing, travel, and truth quotes david miller. Crossing time, by fernando pessoa the words, more than words, good books. Reading the book of disquiet by fernando pessoa as it appeared on the 2002 world librarys greatest books of all time list. Born in lisbon in 1888, pessoa might have taught j. Fernando pessoa is currently considered a single author. Fernando pessoa, heteronymism, heteronymous poems, english translation, alberto caeiro. A selfdeprecating reflection on the sheer distance between the loftiness of feelings and the humdrum reality of life, the book of disquiet is a classic of existentialist literature. Discover book depositorys huge selection of fernando pessoa books online. We personally assess every books quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures.
Fernando pessoa, one of the founders of modernism, was born in lisbon in 1888. Fernando pessoa primary author only author division. 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 18881935 was born in lisbon and brought up in durban, south africa. He grew up in durban, south africa, where his stepfather was portuguese consul. Fernando pessoa s books fernando pessoa average rating. Fernando antonio nogueira pessoa was born in lisbon. In these series and throughout this period, the artist explored pure geometrical shapes. Books by fernando pessoa author of the book of disquiet. Travessias pela literatura portuguesa scielo livros. Fernando pessoa on writing, travel, and truth quotes. He also wrote in and translated from english and french. He wrote prolifically in three languages but published relatively little, and he hid behind assumed names and identities, some 75 of them in all, which he called heteronyms.