Message ("Mensagem") was the only book of verse in his own language that Pessoa saw through the press in his lifetime. On the face of it, a patriotic sequence steeped in 'Sebastianismo', the poems offer much more than this, the Kings and navigators of the Portugal's history standing as avatars of the poet's self, their explorations and heroic deeds projections of the poet's inner creative life. Although Pessoa is famous for the many heteronyms under which he composed verse in wildly different styles, this volume was published under his own name - the 'orthonym', as he defined it - and it...
Message ("Mensagem") was the only book of verse in his own language that Pessoa saw through the press in his lifetime. On the face of it, a patriotic ...
Fikce, mystifikace a paradoxy vyznačují literární dílo Portugalce Fernanda Pessoy (1888-1935), publikované až na výjimky teprve po autorově smrti. Dnes světově známý spisovatel se literárně představoval nejen pod svým jménem, ale zvláště v podobě imaginárních autorských osobností, obdařených originálním dílem. Sám o sobě tvrdil, že umělecky umí pouze lhát, ale náš výbor z několika okruhů Pessoovy korespondence z let 1913-1935 jej chce ukázat z jiné stránky než jen jako tvůrce roztříštěného ve slavných básnických a prozaických...
Fikce, mystifikace a paradoxy vyznačují literární dílo Portugalce Fernanda Pessoy (1888-1935), publikované až na výjimky teprve po autorově s...
The writing of Fernando Pessoa reveals a mind shaken by intense inner suffering. In these poems he adopted four separate personae: Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis and himself, using them to express 'great swarms of thought and feeling'. While each personae has its own poetic identity, together they convey a sense of ambivalence and consolidate a striving for completeness. Dramatic, lyrical, Christian, pagan, old and modern, Pessoa's poets and poetry contribute to the 'mysterious importance of existence'.
The writing of Fernando Pessoa reveals a mind shaken by intense inner suffering. In these poems he adopted four separate personae: Alberto Caeiro, Alv...
"Readers with a particular interest in modernism will find this work indispensable."Publishers Weekly
"Pessoa's amazing personality is as beguiling and mysterious as his unique poetic output."William Boyd
A self-deprecating reflection on the sheer distance between the loftiness of feelings and the humdrumreality of life, The Book of Disquiet is a classic of existentialist literature.
Fernando Pessoa, one of the founders of modernism, was born in Lisbon in 1888. Most of Pessoa's writing was not published during his lifetime: The Book of Disquiet...
"Readers with a particular interest in modernism will find this work indispensable."Publishers Weekly
The Transformation Book, which belongs to Pessoa's pre-heteronymic period, contains a series of fragments written in English, Portuguese, and French, none of which were ever published during Pessoa's lifetime. Conceived by Pessoa in 1908, a year of great social and cultural transformation in Portugal, The Transformation Book was designed to reflect and advance social and cultural transformation in Portugal and beyond. Moving between a number of literary forms, including poetry, fiction, and satire as well as essays on politics, philosophy, and psychiatry, The Transformation Book marks one of...
The Transformation Book, which belongs to Pessoa's pre-heteronymic period, contains a series of fragments written in English, Portuguese, and French, ...
With its astounding hardcover reviews Richard Zenith's new complete translation of THE BOOK OF DISQUIET has now taken on a similar iconic status to ULYSSES, THE TRIAL or IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME as one of the greatest but also strangest modernist texts. An assembly of sometimes linked fragments, it is a mesmerising, haunting 'novel' without parallel in any other culture.
With its astounding hardcover reviews Richard Zenith's new complete translation of THE BOOK OF DISQUIET has now taken on a similar iconic status to UL...
