Fernando Pessoa Livres

"A l'avant d'une modernité dont ce siècle à son déclin se réclame avec superbe, se dresse un homme qui fut obscur, effacé, inconnu de sa concierge, riche d'humour et rayonnant lorsque son miroir intérieur lui renvoyait son reflet futur. "Je ne suis rien", ce n'est pas une parole contrite du saint homme Job, mais un rappel de ce nada ibérique qui est au principe de l'être et à sa terminaison. Trois vers après cette affirmation du néant, survient cette antithèse éclatante : "Je porte en moi tous les rêves du monde" : un feu d'artifice cosmique. "Les poètes n'ont pas de biographie ; leur ouvre est leur biographie." Certes, Octavio Paz, la formule serait irréfutable si une oeuvre au pluriel n'impliquait des poètes multiples. Pessoa, le nôtre puisqu'il est à tous, est un nom qui dans sa langue se traduit par personne - non le nemo latin qui gomme toute identité, mais persona dans l'acception de "masque" ; en ce cas, le verbe apocalyptique qui débouche sur l'énigme, sur l'ambiguïté, sur la supercherie ludique", Armand Guibert.

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.

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.

The book features the remarkable poetry of Fernando Pessoa, a key figure in modern European literature, known for his unique alter egos: Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, and Álvaro de Campos. This updated edition collects his most significant works, showcasing a range from minimalism to exuberance. Translator Richard Zenith highlights Pessoa's innovative exploration of human consciousness and his profound impact on 20th-century poetry, emphasizing both the depth and humor found in his writing.

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.

The Washington Post Book World has written that Fernando Pessoa was "Portugal's 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." The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001, spans playful philosophical inquiry, Platonic dialogue, and bitter intellectual scrapping between Pessoa and his many literary alter egos ("heteronyms"). The heteronyms launch movements and write manifestos, and one of them attempts to break up Pessoa's only known romantic relationship. Also included is a generous selection from Pessoa's masterpiece, The Book of Disquiet, freshly translated by Richard Zenith from newly discovered materials. The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa is an important record of a crucial part of the literary canon. "Zenith's selection is beautifully translated, compact while appropriately diverse." -- Benjamin Kunkel, Los Angeles Times "[Pessoa] is one of those writers as addictive, and endearing, as Borges and Calvino." -- Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World

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