Fernando pessoa s most popular book is the book of disquiet. By bernardo soares, assistant bookkeeper in the city of lisbon. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. He also wrote in and translated from english and french. Fernando pessoa 18881935 sonnets 1918, english poems 1922 and mensagem 1934. However much we give our thoughts the will to be our soul and gesture it abroad, our hearts are incommunicable still. Disquiet refers to a feeling of anxiety, and this story has plenty of unease for both its narrator and readers. Phenomenal woman, still i rise, the road not taken, if you forget me, dreams. The book is an aggregation of disparate diary entries that are abstract, dense, and at times, eccentric. Later his mother maria madalena nogueira pessoa, married the portuguese consul in durban in south africa, and the family lived from 1896. 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. Contos escolhidos by fernando pessoa a bag full of stories. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa if you read this, you need to know what you are signing up for, so, below, ill let pessoa speak for himself. 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 book provides ample evidence of his fruitful, lifelong relationship with the english language. Fernando pessoas the book of disquiet is aptly titled. Published posthumously, the book of disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a factless autobiography. When he died in 1935, pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable pages that make up his posthumous masterpiece, the book of disquiet, an astonishing work that, in george steiners words, gives to lisbon the haunting spell of joyces dublin or kafkas prague. This includes twenty five thousand pages of typed and manuscript pages. Apicapic in the book of disquiet, bernardo soares, an assistant bookkeeper in a lisbon fabrics. The writing of fernando pessoa reveals a mind shaken by intense inner suffering.
Fernando pessoa was a great portuguese poet and writer, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the best poets in the portuguese language. Fernando pessoa has 736 books on goodreads with 163055 ratings. Buy the book of disquiet penguin modern classics new ed by pessoa, fernando, zenith, richard isbn. Common knowledge publisher series fernando pessoa gutenberg. Fernando pessoa gutenberg publisher series librarything. Autopsychography by fernando pessoa poetry magazine. Fernando pessoa, one of the most original poets of european modernism, was born in lisbon on the th june 1888. 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. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Fernando pessoa the writer university fernando pessoa. Illustration by riccardo vecchio if ever there was a writer in flight from his name, it was fernando pessoa. 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. In 1905 he left for south africa with his mother and stepfather who had been appointed portuguese consul in durban.
The book of disquiet penguin classics pessoa, fernando, zenith, richard, zenith, richard on. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. He left behind a legacy of heavy burden on the shoulders of publishers to edit his huge unfinished and unpublished work. He wrote under several identities, which he called heteronyms. His book of disquiet a collection of incomplete writings found on loose scraps of paper and published nearly 50 years after pessoas death makes for sleepless, existential reading. Fall 2015 603 awell eknownpoetonceaskedmeifiwoulddohimthefavoroftransl ating. The narrator, perhaps a standin for pessoa himself, is clearly a distant literary relative of shakespeares hamlet or eliots prufrock. Buy poems of fernando pessoa reprint by pessoa, fernando, honig, edwin isbn.
The critic harold bloom considers fernando pessoa along with pablo neruda the most representative poet of the 20th century. He spent much of his childhood in durban, south africa, returning to lisbon at the age of seventeen. 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 and the multiple faces we show on the net. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. This volume brings back into print the comprehensive collection of. What we are cannot be transfused into word or book, our soul from us is infinitely far. Pessoa was a prolific writer, and not only under his own name, for he dreamed up approximately seventyfive others. Fernando pessoa s books fernando pessoa average rating. Livro do desassossego the book of disquiet, fernando pessoa the book of disquiet is a work by the portuguese author fernando pessoa 18881935. The book of disquiet, written by fernando pessoa, a portuguese poet, is considered an early classic of existential writing.
Pessoa, fernando, 18881935, pessoa, fernando, 18881935 publisher. I have recently finished the anthology contos escolhidos, comprising ten of his short stories. They are mainly characterised by being quite philosophical and sometimes even featuring esoteric. Like im sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything. 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. Imagination, reality and the pleasure of masking and dreaming rodica grigore1 the portuguese writer fernando pessoa complicates the idea of fictionality, by underscoring the fact that the personality of soares the fictional author of the book of disquiet is neither his own nor com. 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. Ive been drawn to existentialism which i understand to be the recognition that life lacks meaning, rendering the human condition a function of mere existence since reading sartre, camus and kierkegaard years ago. Books by fernando pessoa author of the book of disquiet.
Fernando antonio nogueira pessoa was born in lisbon. The book of disquiet was found, in fragments, only after pessoa s death. Fernando pessoa poems by the famous poet all poetry. Im always speaking banally to someone, with a contrived smile on my face. He earned his living as a writer of foreign correspodence for business firms, as a translator and horoscope seller. Its a series of vignettes, random thoughts and meditations all written between 19 and 1935. Compiled by the translator richard zenith, fernando pessoas the book of disquiet is a fulgent tribute to the imagination of man.
See more ideas about fernando pessoa, words and quotes. Fernando pessoa 18881935, the portuguese poet, literary critic, and essayist, is one of the most significant literary figures of the twentieth century. At thirteen pessoa returned to portugal for a yearlong visit, and returned there permanently in 1905. 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 of disquiet is a work by the portuguese author fernando pessoa 1888 1935. Fernando pessoa is portugals most important contemporary poet. Pessoa died at the age of forty seven in the year 1935. Published posthumously, the book of disquiet is a fragmentary. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa is one such modern masterpiece that i read last week. The transformation book provides significant insight. Selected poems ebook by fernando pessoa rakuten kobo.
Fernando pessoa poems poems of fernando pessoa poem. Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no kindle device required. The book of disquiet penguin modern classics 30may2002. 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.
He moved to durban, south africa, as a child, becoming bilingual portuguese, english. The statement is possible since pessoa, whose name means person in portuguese, had three alter egos who. It is sometimes said that the four greatest portuguese poets of modern times are fernando pessoa. This is a considerable feat if one considers other 20th century poets like. Fernando pessoa is surely the most important 20th century portuguese poet. 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. In lisbon there are a few restaurants or eating houses located above decentlooking taverns, places with the heavy, domestic look of restaurants in towns far from any rail line. He wrote fine poetry under his own name as well, and each of his voices is completely different in subject, temperament, and style. Born in 1888, fernando pessoa is widxely considered portugals greatest modern poet and author.
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