Discover book depositorys huge selection of fernando pessoa books online. Fernando pessoa is one of the great poets of the 20th century, and is still something of a mystery to readers outside portugal and brazil, where his work has. At thirteen pessoa returned to portugal for a year. We personally assess every books quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures. Born in 1888, fernando pessoa is widxely considered portugals greatest modern poet and author. Fernando pessoa 18881935, the portuguese poet, literary critic, and essayist, is one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century. The statement is possible since pessoa, whose name means person in portuguese, had three alter egos who wrote in styles completely different from his own. 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. He is one of the best known authors of the geracao dorpheu, and is usually considered their greatest poet, after fernando pessoa. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices. Fernando pessoa and the portuguese modernist heritage. Fernando pessoa 18881935, the portuguese poet, literary critic, and essayist, is one of the most significant literary figures of the twentieth century. Fernando pessoa was a portuguese writer, poet, literacy critic, publisher, translator and philosopher.
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The complete works of alberto caeiro new directions publishing. Books by pessoa, fernando sorted by popularity project gutenberg books by pessoa, fernando sorted by popularity. Pessoas first book, antinous, came out in 1918, and was followed by two. In the preface to the book of disquiet, pessoa wrote about himself. T he melancholy writer fernando pessoa, who died 75 years ago this week, was likely unaware of the effect he would have on portugal decades later.
I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura i sound and clash inside myself. While each personae has its own poetic identity, together they convey a sense of ambivalence and consolidate a striving for. In fact, a significant amount of pessoas writings in english and in portuguese including those attributed to his. Zeniths selection is beautifully translated, compact while appropriately diverse. Underlining passages in books seems to justify the act of reading. Zeniths selection of pessoa is a beautiful onevolume course in the soul of the twentieth century.
Fernando pessoa books list of books by author fernando pessoa. Merwin fernando pessoa is the least known of the masters of the twentiethcentury poetry. Fernando pessoa author of the book of disquiet goodreads. Later his mother maria madalena nogueira pessoa, married the portuguese consul in durban in south africa, and the family lived from 1896. Pessoa is the portuguese word for person, and there is nothing he less wanted to be. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a page.
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. 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. Fernando pessoa was a member of the modernist group orpheu. Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator. 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.
With pessoas digitized private library online, the importance of english to pessoa has become indisputable, particularly in his formative years. Fernando antonio nogueira pessoa was born in lisbon. New directions publishing the complete works of alberto. He fondly remembers an office boy who collected travel brochures, but never. Books by pessoa, fernando sorted by popularity project gutenberg books by. 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. Although an encounter between jorge luis borges 18991986 and fernando pessoa 18881935 seems unlikely, the possibility is real enough. Fernando pessoas most popular book is the book of disquiet. The writing of fernando pessoa reveals a mind shaken by intense inner suffering. His first poems, dispersao dispersion, were written in paris and published in 1914.
Fernando antonio nogueira pessoa was a portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator. Fernando pessoa, recognized as the greatest poet of the portuguese language was born on th of june 1888 in lisbon, portugal. The complete works of alberto caeiro poetry by fernando pessoa translated by margaret jull costa patricio ferrari edited by jeronimo pizarro patricio ferrari here, in margaret jull costa and patricio ferraris splendid new translations, are the complete poems of alberto caeiro, the imaginary master of the heteronym coterie created by the portuguese modernist fernando pessoa. Follow fernando pessoa and explore their bibliography from s fernando pessoa author page. Fernando pessoa s most popular book is the book of disquiet. Fernando pessoa, one of the greatest portuguese poets, whose modernist work gave portuguese literature european significance. Pessoa is the portuguese word for person, and there is nothing he less. We personally assess every book s quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures. 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. He is described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and also one of the greatest poets of the portuguese language. Books by pessoa, fernando sorted by popularity project gutenberg. Pessoa wrote under more than 75 pseudonyms, many of which he developed into heteronyms, characters endowed with their own biographies, physiques, personalities, political views. A bilingual companion to the book of disquiet, by fernando pessoa here. Here, in margaret jull costa and patricio ferraris splendid new translations, are the complete poems of alberto caeiro, the imaginary heteronym coterie created by fernando pessoa, the portuguese modernist master.
The book of disquiet is the portuguese modernist master fernando pessoas. Fernando pessoa has 736 books on goodreads with 161520 ratings. Edwin honigs translations of spanish and portuguese poetry have been known to anyone who cares about either, since his work on lorca in the forties, and his selected poems of pessoa 1971 was a welcome step toward a longawaited larger colection. Fernando pessoa quotes author of the book of disquiet. 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. As it now stands, the largest collection of pessoas posthumous english poems written under his own name96 of them, in factwas published in portugal, by. Dec 04, 2010 t he melancholy writer fernando pessoa, who died 75 years ago this week, was likely unaware of the effect he would have on portugal decades later. The most celebrated portuguese poet, who had a major role in the development of modernism in his country. Gagliardi mario beirao e fernando pessoa pessoa plural. If ever there was a writer in flight from his name, it was fernando pessoa. Jul 01, 2015 although an encounter between jorge luis borges 18991986 and fernando pessoa 18881935 seems unlikely, the possibility is real enough.
His work has been published on the internet, in magazines most recently in otherpoetry and phatitude as well as in book form. Edited and translated into portuguese by luisa freire. Fernando pessoa 18881935 was born in lisbon and raised in durban, south africa. Fernando pessoa was born on june, 1888, in lisbon, portugal. Fernando pessoa as english reader and writer provides ample evidence of his fruitful, lifelong relationship with the english language. I copied them from the books i found them in, so that they would be right in front of me. Phenomenal woman, still i rise, the road not taken, if you forget me, dreams. 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. Here, in margaret jull costa and patricio ferraris splendid new translations, are the complete poems of alberto caeiro, the imaginary master of the heteronym coterie created by the portuguese modernist fernando pessoa. It is sometimes said that the four greatest portuguese poets of modern times are fernando pessoa. Project gutenberg offers 61,448 free ebooks to download. He also wrote in and translated from english and french. The incomplete english poems of fernando pessoa cary stough pessoa, fernando 2000. 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. For some years, in fact, i have dedicated myself to revisiting my photographs transforming them into images that can express the sensation experienced during the shooting or, sometimes, during postproduction. A bilingual companion to the book of disquiet, by fernando pessoa. On these words by fernando pessoa is based my way of interpreting contemporary art. Fernando pessoa and the multiple faces we show on the net.
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