P ortuguese poet fernando pessoa 18881935 was the most prominent modernist literary figure in 20th century portugal, where he was associated with avantgarde literary circles, magazines, and small press publications in his poetry, pessoa announced modernist themes. At thirteen pessoa returned to portugal for a yearlong visit, and returned there permanently in 1905. See more ideas about fernando pessoa, words and quotes. Now, for the first time the texts are presented chronologically, in a complete english edition by master translator. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. The critical edition of fernando pessoas complete english poems is yet to come. Twentyfive unpublished english poems by fernando pessoa. Livro do desassossego the book of disquiet, fernando pessoa the book of disquiet is a work by the portuguese author fernando pessoa 18881935. This almostautobiographical story tells of the sombre majesty of splendours no one knows in the very private life of its hero and offers. When he died in 1935, pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable pages that make up his posthumous masterpiece, the book of disquiet, an astonishing work that, in george steiners words, gives to lisbon the haunting spell of joyces dublin or kafkas prague. Im always speaking banally to someone, with a contrived smile on my face. Written over the course of fernando pessoas life, it was first. An autobiography or diary containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions. His father died when pessoa was five years old, and the family moved with his mothers new husband, a consul, to durban, south africa, where pessoa attended an english school.
Buy poems of fernando pessoa reprint by pessoa, fernando, honig, edwin isbn. The book of disquietude aspects of portugal paperback december 1, 1996 by fernando pessoa author 5. The book of disquiet is the portuguese modernist master fernando pessoas. Book of disquietude, carcanet press limited 176 copy quote. Imagination, reality and the pleasure of masking and dreaming explores the implications of the heteronyms that the author created in order both to express and hide himself from the external world. The book of disquiet penguin classics pessoa, fernando, zenith, richard, zenith, richard on. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa is one such modern masterpiece that i read last week. Pasiferrari fernando pessoa and aleister crowley pessoa plural. This book provides ample evidence of his fruitful, lifelong relationship with the english language.
The book of disquiet is a work by the portuguese author fernando pessoa 18881935. The house where poet fernando pessoa lived the last years of his life was turned into a cultural center in 1994. For its entire four hundred plus pages it offers a philosophy of a melancholic life, a philosophy of dreaming, and a philosophy of art. 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. 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. Disquiet refers to a feeling of anxiety, and this story has plenty of unease for both its narrator and readers. The book of disquiet 1997 mies jota ei koskaan ollut tv movie 1996 pessoa novel 1995 a luz incerta novel 1994 continuum. The book of disquiet was found, in fragments, only after pessoas. Fernando pessoa will be an unknown name to many literary fans and, furthermore, the book of disquiet is untraditional to the extreme. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa, translated by margaret jull costa.
The book of disquiet penguin modern classics 30may2002. Fernando pessoa author, richard zenith editor, translator. Share fernando pessoa quotations about dreams, soul and writing. Was 18 march 1914 the most extraordinary date in modern literature. I follow the course of my dreams, making them images into steps toward.
Illustration by riccardo vecchio if ever there was a writer in flight from his name, it was fernando pessoa. Published posthumously, the book of disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a factless autobiography. The book of disquiet penguin classics pessoa, fernando, zenith. The book of disquiet is a work by the portuguese author fernando pessoa 1888 1935. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa, margaret jull costa. Composed mostly on the eve and during the aftermath of world war i, the book of disquiet. Fernando pessoa biography childhood, life achievements. 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. By bernardo soares, assistant bookkeeper in the city of lisbon. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa blindness by jose saramago os maias by. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa, paperback. This fragmentary novel was published 47 years after the death of 20thcentury portuguese author and poet fernando pessoa.
Published posthumously, the book of disquiet is a fragmentary. See all 7 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. The book of disquiet is the portuguese modernist master fernando pessoas greatest literary achievement. If ever there was a writer in flight from his name, it was fernando pessoa. Pessoa created the semiheteronym bernardo soares, and wrote fictional journal for a period of 20 years, which became the book of disquietude. Fernando pessoas the book of disquiet is aptly titled.
He also wrote in and translated from english and french. Apicapic in the book of disquiet, bernardo soares, an assistant bookkeeper in a lisbon fabrics. He had written thousands of texts under at least 72 heteronyms besides fernando pessoa. Conceived in 1916, soares is, pessoa declared, amutilation of his own personality. The book of disquiet is a collection of epiphanic journal or diary prose kept by pessoa and found decades after his death. The book of disquietude is the factless autobiography of bernardo soares, one of the 72 literary personae with which portugals greatest poet fernando pessoa 18881935 created the theater of himself. The prose is truly some of the most gorgeous musings about everyday life and existence that any reader could ever find. Its barely a novel, in fact, and more a vast, endlessly intelligent selection of thoughts based on everyones favourite hobby existing. Fernando pessoa, one of the founders of modernism, was born in lisbon in 1888. A prolific writer, ascribing his work to a variety of personas or heteronyms, pessoa published little in his lifetime and supported himself by working as a commercial translator.
Im always out in the evenings doing something, the purpose of which eludes me. Its made up of a few personal objects and portraits by almada negreiros and julio pomar, as well as a library with books about the writer and subjects related to him. In this extraordinary book, the putative factless autobiography of an accountant named bernardo soares, fernando pessoa explores and. One represents pessoas side, and it remained in the hands. Juin, 1888 november 30, 1935, commonly kent as fernando pessoa, wis a portuguese poet, writer, leeterar creetic, translator, publisher an filosofer, descrived as ane o the maist signeeficant leeterar feegurs o the 20t century an ane o the greatest poets in the portuguese leid. 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. Pessoa plurala journal of fernando pessoa studies, n. The book of disquiet was found, in fragments, only after pessoas death.
The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa professional moron. The book of disquiet is one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. The book is an aggregation of disparate diary entries that are abstract, dense, and at times, eccentric. The book of disquietude by fernando pessoa, richard zenith. Like im sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything. The narrator, perhaps a standin for pessoa himself, is clearly a distant literary relative of. Fernando pessoa 18881935 was born in lisbon and brought up in durban, south africa. Fernando pessoa books list of books by author fernando. November 30, 1935 in the same city was a portuguese poet and writer. A selfdeprecating reflection on the sheer distance between the loftiness of feelings and the humdrum reality of life, the book of disquiet is a classic of existentialist literature.