Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone. We personally assess every book s quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures. 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. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Fernando pessoa has 736 books on goodreads with 163055 ratings. By bernardo soares, assistant bookkeeper in the city of lisbon. With pessoas digitized private library online, the importance of english to pessoa has become indisputable, particularly in his formative years.
The narrator, perhaps a standin for pessoa himself, is clearly a distant literary relative of shakespeares hamlet or eliots prufrock. The pedestal is adorned with magnificent figures depicting the rebuilding of lisbon after the great earthquake in 1755. Fernando antonio nogueira pessoa was a portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator. A critical edition, always astonished, poems of fernando pessoa, ksiega niepokoju polish etc. Published posthumously, the book of disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a factless autobiography. Oscar wilde, fernando pessoa, and the art of lying. Pessoa initi ates two movements, paulismo and interseccionismo. Livro do desassossego the book of disquiet, fernando pessoa the book of disquiet is a work by the portuguese author fernando pessoa 18881935. 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. As a summary of the work of the writer generally known as fernando pessoa, this autobiographical declaration poses some unusual problems. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Full text of fernando pessoa as english reader and writer.
Fernando pessoa was born in lisbon into a wellestablished middleclass family on june 1888. Fernando antonio nogueira pessoa was a poet and writer. Fernando pessoa s most popular book is the book of disquiet. One book was even written in spanish, a rather easy language to understand for a. Fernando pessoa poems by the famous poet all poetry. It is also evident that pessoa was familiar with the essays that constitute wildes critical volume intentions 1891, even if a copy does not today exist in his library. One represents pessoas side, and it remained in the hands. Nationalism, modernity, and the formation of fernando pessoas. Preface by fernando pessoa, a factless autobiography and a disquiet an thology.
Apicapic in the book of disquiet, bernardo soares, an assistant bookkeeper in a lisbon fabrics. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices. Disquiet refers to a feeling of anxiety, and this story has plenty of unease for both its narrator and readers. This almostautobiographical story tells of the sombre majesty of splendours no one knows in the very private life of its hero and offers. Born in 1888, fernando pessoa is widxely considered portugals greatest modern poet and author. Illustration by riccardo vecchio if ever there was a writer in flight from his name, it was fernando pessoa.
Top 9 best fernando pessoa books best fernando pessoa. Selected poems, the book of disquiet serpents tail classics, fernando pessoa and co selected poems, philosophical essays. The book of disquiet penguin modern classics ebook. It is sometimes said that the four greatest portuguese poets of modern times are fernando pessoa. See more ideas about fernando pessoa, portuguese language and writers and poets. A postmodernist poet posthumously adopted as part of the portuguese canon, fernando pessoa below adopted a series of voices or heteronyms in which to. His father died when he was five and two years later his mother married the portuguese consul in durban. Full text of fernando pessoa as english reader and writer see other formats. Pasiferrari fernando pessoa and aleister crowley pessoa plural. Later his mother maria madalena nogueira pessoa, married the portuguese consul in durban in south africa, and the family lived from 1896. Fernando pessoa books list of books by author fernando. Saggi sulla lingua by pessoa, fernando and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. In the preface to the book of disquiet, pessoa wrote about himself.
Most of pessoas prolific writings, only a single volume of which appeared in. Now this fragmentary modernist masterpiece appears in a major new edition that unites margaret jull costas celebrated translation with previously missing texts, presented for the first time in. Check out the new look and enjoy easier access to your favorite features. 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. Published posthumously, the book of disquiet is a fragmentary. Evidence of the occult in the life and works of fernando pessoa.
Fernando pessoa 1954 almada negreiros 18931970 flickr. Books by fernando pessoa author of the book of disquiet. Pessoas rapid prose, snatched in flight and restlessly suggestive, remains haunting, often startling, like the touch of a vibrating wire, elusive and persistent like the poetry. The book of disquiet is a work by the portuguese author fernando pessoa 18881935. Written over the course of fernando pessoas life, the book of disquiet was first published in 1982, pieced together from the thousands of individual manuscript pages left behind after his death in 1935. We deliver the joy of reading in 100% recycled packaging with free standard shipping on u.
Revista orgao do interseccionismo, planned on the participation of fernando pessoa, sacarneiro, a. He may have even acquired the books from aristotles library, one of the richest collections of antiquity. Buy fernando pessoa ebooks to read online or download in pdf or epub on your pc, tablet or mobile device. 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. Fernando pessoas the book of disquiet is aptly titled.
Create marketing content that resonates with prezi video. Between 1910 and his death in 1935, fernando pessoa witnessed a series of. The second, interseccionismo, still elaborated this type of symbolism, but. The toprated fernando pessoa books list does feature the following books.