Written over the course of fernando pessoa s life, it was first published in 1982, pieced together from the thousands of individual manuscript pages left behind by pessoa after his death in 1935. Pessoa died at the age of forty seven in the year 1935. It is sometimes said that the four greatest portuguese poets of modern times are fernando pessoa. The selected prose of fernando pessoa is an important record of a crucial part of the literary canon. 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 pessoa is currently considered a single author. His father died when he was five an d two years later his mother married the portuguese consul in durban. With pessoas digitized private library online, the importance of english to pessoa has become indisputable, particularly in his formative years. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg.
A prolific writer, ascribing his work to a variety of personas or heteronyms, pessoa published little in his lifetime and supported himself by working as a commercial translator. In the words of david butler in the book s introduction, fernando pessoa wrote into being a heteronymic hall of mirrors from which the myriad image. Fernando pessoa 18881935 was born in lisbon and brought up in durban, south africa. Born and raised in portugal, i confirm what miguel oliveira said. Fernando pessoa was born in lisbon into a wellestablished middleclass family on june 1888. Fernando antonio nogueira pessoa was a poet and writer. We deliver the joy of reading in 100% recycled packaging with free standard shipping on u. One represents pessoa s side, and it remained in the hands of his family until recently. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices. Buy poems of fernando pessoa reprint by pessoa, fernando, honig, edwin isbn. Fernando pessoas the book of disquiet is aptly titled.
Fernando antonio nogueira pessoa was a portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator. Fernando pessoa primary author only author division. This barcode number lets you verify that youre getting exactly the right version or edition of a book. The book of disquiet was found, in fragments, only after pessoas. The narrator, perhaps a standin for pessoa himself, is clearly a distant literary relative of shakespeares hamlet or eliots prufrock. If ever there was a writer in flight from his name, it was fernando pessoa. Fernando pessoa, the transformation book by contra mundum. Fernando pessoa 18881935 was one of the major poets of the 20th century, one of the major names in portuguese writing, and one of the most enigmatic figures in world literature of any period.
Shipping may be from multiple locations in the us or from the uk, depending on stock availability. Fernando pessoa books list of books by author fernando. Miguel yeco is an actor, known for requiem 1998, pola x 1999 and xavier 1992. The selected prose of fernando pessoa by fernando pessoa. Fernando pessoa audio books, best sellers, author bio. 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. The book is an aggregation of disparate diary entries that are abstract, dense, and at times, eccentric.
All books available where books are sold, and on the following retailers. Pasiferrari fernando pessoa and aleister crowley pessoa plural. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Im always speaking banally to someone, with a contrived smile on my face. Some of these slides were probably photographed by carlos baroque, which led to this book.
A little fraction of fernando pessoa portfolio is part of our high school curriculum. Later his mother maria madalena nogueira pessoa, married the portuguese consul in durban in south africa, and the family lived from 1896. As a summary of the work of the writer generally known as fernando pessoa, this autobiographical declaration poses some unusual problems. Published posthumously, the book of disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a factless autobiography. Do people in portugal read books by fernando pessoa. Fernando pessoa, recognized as the greatest poet of the portuguese language was born on th of june 1888 in lisbon, portugal.
Fernando antonio nogueira pessoa was born in lisbon. Most of pessoas prolific writings, only a single volume of which appeared in. Pessoa spent the formative years of his youth in south africa and was educated in the local schools where he received a thorough grounding in. O buraco da agulha the hole of the needle yeco as a spectral and ghostly pretext of pessoa in 1981 miguel yeco returned from paris to portugal to start the project pessoas and echoes, inspired by the figure and work of the poet fernando pessoa, performing more than thirty performances, recorded in some slides. 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. For its entire four hundred plus pages it offers a philosophy of a melancholic life, a philosophy of dreaming, and a philosophy of art. 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. The book of disquiet is one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. The only book that we almost entirely read during that time is mensagem message. Disquiet refers to a feeling of anxiety, and this story has plenty of unease for both its narrator and readers. This almostautobiographical story tells of the sombre majesty of splendours no one knows in the very private life of its hero and offers. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa is one such modern masterpiece that i read last week. In the preface to the book of disquiet, pessoa wrote about himself.
We personally assess every book s quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures. Fernando pessoas multiple voices have different styles and idioms, and each one is extraordinary. Fernando pessoa, the transformation book published on feb 28, 2014 the transformation book, which belongs to pessoas preheteronymic period, contains a series of fragments written in english. Pessoas greatest work took the form of 350 fragments shoved into an envelope found in a trunk after his. Miguel yeco e um artista multifacetado e e socio da associacao fernando pessoa. Browse fernando pessoas bestselling audiobooks and newest titles.
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 dedalus press links to poetry books. 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. I definitely recommend this book if you enjoy poetry, this book is like 6 from 6 different poets in one. Apicapic in the book of disquiet, bernardo soares, an assistant bookkeeper in a lisbon fabrics. I can imagine, how much better these poems are in original. 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 poems by the famous poet all poetry. He also wrote short essays, several of which remained unfinished.
Fernando pessoa in 2020 literary heroes, fernando pessoa. In lisbon, french author paul meets various people from his. Was 18 march 1914 the most extraordinary date in modern literature. Zeniths selection is beautifully translated, compact while appropriately diverse.
He only published four compiled books of poems, three of which were in english and only one in portuguese. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. The book of disquiet is the portuguese modernist master fernando pessoas. Im always out in the evenings doing something, the purpose of which eludes me.
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