Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. He also wrote in and translated from english and french. I cant tell which of the three englishlanguage editions of the book of disquiet ive read. His father died when he was young and his mother married the portuguese consul in durban in south africa where they lived from 1896 to 1951. Aqui fez os estudos secundarios, obtendo resultados brilhantes. Indeed, in this book, we have really adopted this second point of view. 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. Again and again, in both poetry and prose, pessoa denied that he existed as any kind of distinctive individual. Fernando pessoa, 1888 1935 portuguese poet fernando pessoa was born in lisbon.
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. Fernando antonio nogueira pessoa was a poet and writer. Fernando pessoa os mensageiros, fernando pessoa livro. Published posthumously, the book of disquiet is a fragmentary. Fernando antonio nogueira pessoa, mais conhecido como fernando pessoa, foi um poeta e escritor. During this time, pessoa became fluent in english and was educated in cape town and lisbon. Mensagem e um livro do poeta portugues fernando pessoa, publicado ainda em vida. May 30, 2002 a modernist masterwork that has now taken on a similar iconic status to ulysses, the trial or in search of lost time, fernando pessoa s the book of disquiet is edited and translated with an introduction by richard zenith in penguin modern classics. 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. Em mensagem, fernando pessoa reune os poemas com os seus grandes personagens historicos portugueses.
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 frases, pensamentos e citacoes kd frases. Fernando pessoa remains one of the most enigmatic writers of the 20th century. A modernist masterwork that has now taken on a similar iconic status to ulysses, the trial or in search of lost time, fernando pessoa s the book of disquiet is edited and translated with an introduction by richard zenith in penguin modern classics. Jun 19, 2015 fernando pessoas the book of disquiet is aptly titled. Fernando pessoa frases, citacoes, mensagens e pensamentos. Considering the importance fernando pessoa always showed for occultism, the reader is allowed to look at the book from a different point of view, we may say esoteric. Message mensagem was the only book of verse in his own language that pessoa saw through the press in his lifetime. Fernando pessoa os mensageiros apresentacao youtube.
I want pessoa to be as great as the version zenith presents. 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. Mensagem by fernando pessoa the 2166th greatest fiction. Disquiet refers to a feeling of anxiety, and this story has plenty of unease for both its narrator and readers. 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. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa is one such modern masterpiece that i read last week. It was one of the brightest figures of portuguese culture ever, considered one of.
Pessoa s vocabulary is relatively simple and the beauty of his architecture of words is beyond description and definitely wellworth the effort. Fernando pessoa, os mensageiros a antologia com musica original. November 30, 1935 was a portuguese poet, writer, a literary critic and translator. It is sometimes said that the four greatest portuguese poets of modern times are fernando pessoa. Pessoa is the portuguese word for person, and there is nothing he less wanted to be. 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 is a work by the portuguese author fernando pessoa 1888 1935.
Mensagem message by fernando pessoa english version. Fernando antonio nogueira pessoa, mais conhecido como fernando pessoa, foi um poeta, filosofo e escritor portugues. Fernando pessoa, os mensageiros a antologia com musica. If ever there was a writer in flight from his name, it was fernando pessoa. This book is the 2166th greatest fiction book of all time as determined by. Follow fernando pessoa and explore their bibliography from s fernando pessoa author page. Navegar e preciso navegadores antigos tinham uma frase gloriosa. Fernando pessoa tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo. Thanks to the recovery of a trunk, full of unpublished manuscripts, and the recognition of the poets genius, we are slowly beginning to build up a picture of his marvellous universe.
The english translations i offer after reading prof. This page contains details about the fiction book mensagem by fernando pessoa published in 1934. Fernando pessoa drinking a glass of wine in a lisbon tavern in 1929. The narrator, perhaps a standin for pessoa himself, is clearly a distant literary relative of shakespeares hamlet or eliots prufrock. 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. Fernando pessoa e o mais universal poeta portugues. I love this strange work of fiction and i love the inventive, harddrinking, modest man who wrote it in obscurity. As we have real intention of studying it as deeply as possible, in order to understand it better. Published posthumously, the book of disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a factless autobiography. The book of disquiet was left in a trunk which might never have been opened.
If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. Fernando pessoa is currently considered a single author. The book of disquiet penguin modern classics ebook. Pessoas vocabulary is relatively simple and the beauty of his architecture of words is beyond description and definitely wellworth the effort.