Fernando Pessoa Livres

"Mentalement, aucune originalité, aucune imagination, mais une seule et unique chose, celle-là absorbant toute la substance de son âme... Un raisonnement froid et fluide qui parvenait à contourner les aspérités de la réalité en les dessinant, presque involontairement, d'un trait léger". La malle de Pessoa ne cesse de livrer des trésors étonnants. Voici que le poète, le dramaturge, le penseur nous apparaît aussi auteur de littérature policière. Duel d'intelligence, L'affaire Vargas est le plus ambitieux de ses textes consacrés à ce genre. Raisonneur presque désincarné, le docteur Quaresma y enquête sur un meurtre lié aux plans d'un sous-marin. Et nous offre un exposé diaboliquement logique sur la psychologie pathologique, qui préoccupait tant Fernando Pessoa.

Ce vagabondage textuel à travers l'oeuvre de Fernando Pessoa voudrait présenter le portrait d'un homme extraordinaire et banal, loin de tout ordinaire. Réalisé sur le modèle des comptines d'enfant, ce recueil de fragments - choisis par Rémy Hourcade parmi les dizaines de milliers de feuillets que nous a laissés l'homme aux masques - agite, dans un désordre voulu, les figures chères à cet inconnu de lui-même tel que le définissait Octavio Paz.

Alvaro de Campos, one of Pessoa's key poetic heteronyms, emerged in 1914 and is characterized by his celebration of modernity and the machine age, reflecting the influence of futurism on Portuguese poetry. Born in 1890 in the Algarve and educated in Glasgow, he had a diverse life as an engineer and a public figure, contributing essays and reviews to Portuguese periodicals. This volume focuses on the latter part of his poetic works, while earlier poems will be published in a forthcoming collection.

Fernando Pessoa is Portugal's most important contemporary poet. He wrote under several identities, which he called heteronyms: Albet Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, and Bernardo Soares. He wrote fine poetry under his own name as well, and each of his "voices" is completely different in subject, temperament, and style. This volume brings back into print the comprehensive collection of his work published by Ecco Press in 1986.

Richard Zenith's collection showcases the complete major poetry of Fernando Pessoa, a poet renowned for his extraordinary talent in the 20th century. This volume highlights Pessoa's unique voice and diverse styles, reflecting his complex literary persona and profound themes. Through Zenith's translation, readers can explore the depth of Pessoa's work, which has left a lasting impact on modern poetry.

The Book of Disquiet is one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. Written over the course of Fernando Pessoa's life, it was first published in 1982, pieced together from the thousands of individual manuscript pages left behind by Pessoa after his death in 1935. Now this fragmentary modernist masterpiece appears in a major new edition that unites Margaret Jull Costa's celebrated translation with the most complete version of the text ever produced. It is presented here, for the first time in English, by order of original composition, and accompanied by facsimiles of the original manuscript.Narrated principally by an assistant bookkeeper named Bernardo Soares - an alias of sorts for Pessoa himself - The Book of Disquiet is 'the autobiobraphy of someone who never existed', a mosaic of dreams, of hope and despair; a hymn to the streets and cafés of 1930s Lisbon, and an extraordinary record of the inner life of one of the century's most important writers. This new edition represents the most complete vision of Pessoa's genius.

A bilingual companion to The Book of Disquiet, by Fernando Pessoa

The largest and richest English-language volume of poetry from “the greatest twentieth-century writer you have never heard of” (Los Angeles Times) Edited, Translated, and with an Introduction by Richard Zenith, the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Pessoa: A Biography A Penguin Classic Writing obsessively in French, English, and Portuguese, poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) left a prodigious body of work, much of it credited to three “heteronyms”―Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, and Alvaro de Campos―alter egos with startlingly different styles, points of view, and biographies. Offering a unique sampling of his most famous voices, this collection features Pessoa’s major, best-known works and several stunning poems that have come to light only in this century, including his long, highly autobiographical swan song. Featuring a rich body of work that has never before been translated into English, this is the finest introduction available to the stunning breadth of Pessoa’s genius.