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The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. The selected prose of fernando pessoa fernando pessoa. It is sometimes said that the four greatest portuguese poets of modern times are fernando pessoa. Fernando pessoas the book of disquiet is aptly titled. My fascination with pessoa produced a huge output of paintings and drawings that culminated in the identity parade exhibition. Fernando pessoa fernando pessoa 18851931 was a poet who invented a number of characters, or alter egos, which he called his heteronyms. At the age of 18, he arrived in lisbon and promptly had his first book of poems accepted by fernando pessoas publisher.
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Disquiet refers to a feeling of anxiety, and this story has plenty of unease for both its narrator and readers. This book provides ample evidence of his fruitful, lifelong relationship with the english language. He moved to durban, south africa, as a child, becoming bilingual portuguese, english. The bilingual portuguese poet facultes universitaires saintlouis. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Alberto was born on september 20, 1928 on the island of mozambique to a colonial portuguese family. We personally assess every books quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa, 9781846687358, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. A damage deposit of eur 200 is required on arrival. Fernando pessoa biography childhood, life achievements.
This voluminous catalogue of the private library of fernando pessoa is a monument to pessoas book collecting and reading habits, and represents the. Buy poems of fernando pessoa reprint by pessoa, fernando, honig, edwin isbn. The book of disquiet penguin classics fernando pessoa, richard zenith isbn. The book of disquiet is the portuguese modernist master fernando pessoas. 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. Visit author central to change your photo, edit your biography, and more. Pessoa sailed with his mother to south africa to join his step father, who was a military officer from portugal stationed in durban. 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. Zeniths selection is beautifully translated, compact while appropriately diverse. With pessoa s digitized private library online, the importance of english to pessoa has become indisputable, particularly in his formative years. 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. A little larger than the entire universe by fernando pessoa, 9780143039556, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. 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. Soares himself, in the only moment of being seen from the outside, looks.
Fernando pessoa books list of books by author fernando. Was 18 march 1914 the most extraordinary date in modern literature. Fernando pessoa 18881935 was born in lisbon and brought up in durban, south africa. Pessoa, fernando article about pessoa, fernando by the. If ever there was a writer in flight from his name, it was fernando pessoa. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa, 97802412001, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. The book of disquiet is one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. I untie life from myself, and i toss it aside as if it were a tootight suit. 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 of tuberculosis when he was only 2 years old and his mother remarried.
The transformation book provides significant insight. Again and again, in both poetry and prose, pessoa denied that he existed as any kind of distinctive individual. Fernando pessoa, one of the greatest portuguese poets, whose modernist work gave portuguese literature european significance. Jun 02, 2001 the book of disquiet fernando pessoa, trans. Please inform fernando pessoa apartment of your expected arrival time in advance. Also included is a generous selection from pessoas masterpiece, the book of disquiet, freshly translated by richard zenith from newly discovered materials. A few years later, he left portugal for london, where he made immediate inroads in londons literary crowd. Fernando pessoa books list of books by author fernando pessoa. Fernando pessoa, recognized as the greatest poet of the portuguese language was born on th of june 1888 in lisbon, portugal. Discover book depositorys huge selection of fernando pessoa books online. 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.
Im always speaking banally to someone, with a contrived smile on my face. 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. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man. Pessoa, fernando, 18881935, pessoa, fernando, 18881935 publisher. The complete edition and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. Collection travaux et recherches 20 volume 20 of publications des facultes universitaires saintlouis. Fernando pessoa primary author only author division. 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.
Aug 30, 2016 pessoa never finished it, and saw it as notes he would then shape. Also included is a generous selection from pessoa s masterpiece, the book of disquiet, freshly translated by richard zenith from newly discovered materials. The complete edition serpents tail classics margaret jull costa translator fernando. Fernando antonio nogueira pessoa was born in lisbon. 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. Fernando pessoas most popular book is the book of disquiet. Fernando pessoa is currently considered a single author. Fernando pessoa in english may 24, 2018 i follow the course of my dreams, making them images into steps toward other images.
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Travaux et recherches volume 20 of travaux et recherches, facultes universitaires saintlouis. 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. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices. Illustration by riccardo vecchio if ever there was a writer in flight from his name, it was fernando pessoa. He also wrote in and translated from english and french. Later his mother maria madalena nogueira pessoa, married the portuguese consul in durban in south africa, and the family lived from 1896. High quality fernando pessoa gifts and merchandise. Fernando pessoa poems by the famous poet all poetry. Im always out in the evenings doing something, the purpose of which eludes me.
The narrator, perhaps a standin for pessoa himself, is clearly a distant literary relative of shakespeares hamlet or eliots prufrock. The book of disquiet is funny, lifeaffirming, and, of course, desperately sad. The book of disquiet penguin modern classics 30may2002. Pages in category fernando pessoa the following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. 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 has 736 books on goodreads with 163055 ratings. The selected prose of fernando pessoa is an important record of a crucial part of the literary canon. Published posthumously, the book of disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a factless autobiography.
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