The selected prose of fernando pessoa fernando pessoa. Known also as an author, pessoa had been referred by harold bloom in his work. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Born in 1888, fernando pessoa is widxely considered portugals greatest modern poet and author. Fernando pessoa 18881935 was born in lisbon and brought up in durban, south africa.
A holiday trip to the east resulted in the opiario. The narrator, perhaps a standin for pessoa himself, is clearly a distant literary relative of shakespeares hamlet or eliots prufrock. A note at the end of the film adds that it was inspired by a painting on tiles representing lisbon before the great earthquake of 1755. The poet fernando pessoa was a driving force behind the birth of portuguese. Presence of islamic philosophy in unpublished writings by the. Pessoa is the portuguese word for person, and there is nothing he less wanted to be. Fernando pessoa, the transformation book by contra mundum. Art is capability, and maybe the best art flourishes in the tension between failure and success. I am nothing i shall never be anything i cannot want to be anything. In 2009 the music was released on a cd by dacapo records. Zeniths selection is beautifully translated, compact while appropriately diverse. How can i think or edge my thoughts to actionwhen the miserly press of each days needaches to a narrowness of spilled distraction.
Fernando pessoa is one of the most celebrated portuguese poets of all times who contributed greatly to the development of modernism in portuguese literature. 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. Fernando pessoa and the portuguese modernist heritage. The many times cited final diagnosis of hepatic colic and. Tabacaria to become not only the myth that he is for us, but also one of the key. Fernando pessoa dedalus press links to poetry books. 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. 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 completely different, and showing how pessoa was constrained by his own creations and creativity.
Pessoas fictions an essay by peter poulsen on a poet without a biography fernando pessoa i chiado, c. Fernando antonio nogueira pessoa was a poet and writer. 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. Entre autres poemes portugais, on peut mentionner celuici. His father died when he was five and two years later his mother married the portuguese consul in durban. Pelo contrario, este escritor nao usa o coracao, e seus textos provem da imaginacao, berco do fingimento e da criatividade. The tensioner is attached to the top of lunging roller. 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. Publication date 20160609 usage public domain mark 1.
The statement is possible since pessoa, whose name means person in portuguese, had three alter egos. Pessoa s account that the apparition of his four major heteronyms coincided with the discovery of the heteronymic approach. Jan 28, 2012 these words by portuguese writer fernando pessoa express the frustrations of being a writer or artist. Fernando pessoa was born in lisbon into a wellestablished middleclass family on june 1888. 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 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. In the words of david butler in the books introduction, fernando pessoa wrote into being a heteronymic hall of mirrors from which the myriad image. A note at the end of the film adds that it was inspired by a painting on tiles. Then two lines run from the tensioner, along either side of the horse, through rings on the.
The book of disquiet, opera as one man, with films. Preface by fernando pessoa, a factless autobiography and a disquiet an thology. Fernando pessoa lisbon, what the tourist should see. Pages in category fernando pessoa the following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. Nesse verso vemos o dilema conflituoso existencial do eu. Fernando pessoas the book of disquiet is aptly titled. Hubert d jennings in search of fernando pessoa 1 contrast 47 south african quarterly june 1979 volume 12 no. Presence of islamic philosophy in unpublished writings by. Disquiet refers to a feeling of anxiety, and this story has plenty of unease for both its narrator and readers. A system of ropes and pulleys that run along the sides of the horse, with an elastic tensioner positioned behind the quarters. Published posthumously, the book of disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a factless autobiography. Fernando pessoa has for a long time been an intriguing, even obsessional, figure to some of our most noted poets.
I post them here to remind myself of the fact that each new project has these three things. Aside from that, i have within me all the dreams of the world. A tabacaria do outro lado da rua, como coisa real por fora. It is sometimes said that the four greatest portuguese poets of modern times are fernando pessoa. Apicapic in the book of disquiet, bernardo soares, an assistant bookkeeper in a lisbon fabrics. Nov 30, 2006 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. The selected prose of fernando pessoa is an important record of a crucial part of the literary canon. Windows of my room, the room of one of the worlds millions nobody knows and if they knew me, what would they know. 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. He also wrote in and translated from english and french.
If ever there was a writer in flight from his name, it was fernando pessoa. The portuguese regicide and the political situation in portugal 2. This is azulejo ou lillusion visuelle, an animated film by kolja saksida made in the two week workshop in lisbon, portugal, according to the description on vimeo from zvviks, the slovenian institute for film and audiovisual production. Although is guide is still very actual, let us mention some more recent wonders of lisbon that fernando pessoa would have added to an updated version of his guide.
Fernando pessoa, hubert jennings, jennings literary estate, espolio 3. How can i think, or edge my thoughts to action, when the miserly press of each days need aches to a narrowness of spilled distraction my soul appalled at the worlds works timegreed. Pessoa age assim como o filosofo sartre em seu livro o ser e o nada. An uncle from the beiras region of portugal, who was a priest, taught. Ideados como auto res independientes, alberto caeiro, ricardo.
Wikimedia commons has media related to fernando pessoa. Apicapic in the book of disquiet, bernardo soares, an assistant bookkeeper in a lisbon fabrics firm, records impressions he doesnt expect to see. In 20038 the danish composer klaus ib jorgensen wrote a series of works based on poems by the portuguese poet fernando pessoa. Feb 28, 2014 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. 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.
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