Im always speaking banally to someone, with a contrived smile on my face. This is a considerable feat if one considers other 20th century poets like. He returned to lisbon in 1905 and worked as a clerk in an importexport company until his death in 1935. Perhaps at some day beyond shadows and light she will think of me and make all me a delight all away from sight. I chat about my experience of the book of disquiet by fernando pessoa. The book of disquiet, by the portuguese writer fernando pessoa, is properly speaking perhaps not a book at all, and i imagine pessoa would not necessarily be pleased to have his name so prominently affixed to it. Fernando pessoa has 734 books on goodreads with 160999 ratings. The book of disquiet first came out in portugal in 1982. 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. Fernando pessoa s most popular book is the book of disquiet. Buy poems of fernando pessoa reprint by fernando pessoa, edwin honig isbn.
This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. Fernando pessoa books list of books by author fernando pessoa. Under the orthonym fernando pessoa he did write an introduction, but he credited the texts themselves to two different authors. The book of disquiet was found, in fragments, only after pessoa s death. The book of disquiet penguin classics pessoa, fernando, zenith, richard, zenith, richard on. Whence taketh me a qualmlike ache of life, a bodydeep soulhate. Mar 26, 2016 i chat about my experience of the book of disquiet by fernando pessoa. Nao pesa como o cansaco do corpo, nem inquieta como o cansaco do conhecimento pela emocao. Disquiet refers to a feeling of anxiety, and this story has plenty of unease for both its narrator and readers. In edwin honigs and susan browns superb translations, pessoa and his others live with miraculous style and vitality. 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. 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. The book of disquiet is funny, lifeaffirming, and, of course, desperately sad. The book of disquiet is the portuguese modernist master fernando pessoas greatest literary achievement.
The narrator, perhaps a standin for pessoa himself, is clearly a distant literary relative of shakespeares hamlet or eliots prufrock. An autobiography or diary containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions. In these random impressions, with no desire to be other than random, i indifferently narrate my factless autobiography, my lifeless history. Most of pessoa\\s writing was not published during his lifetime. We personally assess every books quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures. The book includes four poems by fernando pessoa himself, and two each respectively by his three major heteronyms, each translation accompanied by the portuguese text handwritten by four different people, referring of course, to those four major persons who authored pessoa s poetry. Fernando pessoa briefly met the greek poet constantine cavafy while travelling to new york via london. However much we give our thoughts the will to be our soul and gesture it abroad, our hearts are incommunicable still. It is sometimes said that the four greatest portuguese poets of modern times are fernando pessoa. Im always out in the evenings doing something, the purpose of which eludes me.
She did not let me hold her hands playing with gold. The journey was never completed as news of the stock market crash of 1929 arrived. As 39 melhores imagens em fernando pessoa fernando pessoa. Jun 19, 2015 fernando pessoas the book of disquiet is aptly titled. Fernando pessoa is surely the most important 20th century portuguese poet. We deliver the joy of reading in 100% recycled packaging with free standard shipping on u. Illustration by riccardo vecchio if ever there was a writer in flight from his name, it was fernando pessoa. This is explained in the documentary movie the night fernando pessoa met constantine cavafy. The critic harold bloom considers fernando pessoa along with pablo neruda the most representative poet of the 20th century. Livro do desassossego fernando pessoa pages 251 300. Joy can touch her not, nor hope enter her domain, neither love in vain. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app.
Fernando pessoa quotes author of the book of disquiet. Fernando pessoa books list of books by author fernando. Consulta mais ideias sobre fernando pessoa, frases fernando pessoa e poesias fernando pessoa. The transformation book provides significant insight. Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no kindle device required. The authors description of a consciousness experiencing what we call life is genius. See more ideas about fernando pessoa, words and quotes. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices. Leave in a complex state of slumber your consciousness of science.
Look at your white face in the wines red mirror and then drink the mirror. As vezes, na noite, quando me sinto so, chamo por ele e choro, e faco me uma ideia dele a quempossa amar. Fernando pessoas most popular book is the book of disquiet. Books by fernando pessoa author of the book of disquiet. Fernando pessoas the book of disquiet is aptly titled. Jun 02, 2001 the book of disquiet fernando pessoa, trans. Pessoa is the exemplary poet of the self as other, of the poem as testament to unreality, proclamation of nothingness, occasion for expectancy.
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. Buy the book of disquiet penguin modern classics new ed by pessoa, fernando, zenith, richard isbn. 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. As 15 melhores imagens em pessoa,fernando frases fernando. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. What we are cannot be transfused into word or book, our soul from us is infinitely far.
Manuela parreira da silva, ana maria freitas, madalena dine, 2005. I have this in my book marker to be great, be whole. Fernando pessoa, one of the founders of modernism, was born in lisbon in 1888. He also wrote in and translated from english and french.
Mark strand fernando pessoa is portugals most important contemporary poet. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa book chat youtube. The book of disquiet 1982 is a novel by portuguese author fernando pessoa, published posthumously, using the heteronym bernardo soares quotes. Dec 25, 2009 book of disquiet reveals a reclusive authors soul author fernando pessoa may have been a loner who lived most of his life in a single room in lisbon, portugal. Published posthumously, the book of disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a factless autobiography. My life outside of work has become a kind of work, full of duties and responsibilities from which i long to escape. Livro do desassossego the book of disquiet, fernando pessoa the book of disquiet is a work by the portuguese author fernando pessoa 18881935. Fernando pessoa, author of the book of disquiet, on librarything. Book of disquiet reveals a reclusive authors soul author fernando pessoa may have been a loner who lived most of his life in a single room in. Like there are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful. The book includes four poems by fernando pessoa himself, and two each respectively by his three major heteronyms, each translation accompanied by the portuguese text handwritten by four different people, referring of course, to those four major persons who authored pessoas poetry. 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. As 39 melhores imagens em fernando pessoa fernando.