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Escritos autobiográficos, automáticos e de reflexão pessoal
Aquando da sua primeira publicação em 2003, o presente livro corrigiu numerosos dados sobre a vida de Pessoa e revelou várias facetas da sua obra até então mal conhecidas. Reuniu, pela primeira vez e na íntegra, os três diários do escritor (de 1906, de 1913 e de 1915), apresentou oitenta comunicações mediúnicas que este supostamente recebia de espíritos astrais a partir de 1916 (os «escritos automáticos»), e incluiu dezenas de inéditos sobre aspectos mais íntimos do seu pensar e sentir. Esta nova edição, cuidadosamente revista, apresenta melhorias na transcrição e na datação dos originais do autor e uma pormenorizada Cronologia de todo o seu percurso, actualizada com base nas mais recentes pesquisas.
535 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
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Fernando Pessoa
1,250 books6,347 followersFernando António Nogueira Pessoa was a poet and writer.
It is sometimes said that the four greatest Portuguese poets of modern times are Fernando Pessoa. 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. In fact Pessoa wrote under dozens of names, but Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos were – their creator claimed – full-fledged individuals who wrote things that he himself would never or could never write. He dubbed them ‘heteronyms’ rather than pseudonyms, since they were not false names but “other names”, belonging to distinct literary personalities. Not only were their styles different; they thought differently, they had different religious and political views, different aesthetic sensibilities, different social temperaments. And each produced a large body of poetry. Álvaro de Campos and Ricardo Reis also signed dozens of pages of prose.
The critic Harold Bloom referred to him in the book The Western Canon as the most representative poet of the twentieth century, along with Pablo Neruda.
It is sometimes said that the four greatest Portuguese poets of modern times are Fernando Pessoa. 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. In fact Pessoa wrote under dozens of names, but Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos were – their creator claimed – full-fledged individuals who wrote things that he himself would never or could never write. He dubbed them ‘heteronyms’ rather than pseudonyms, since they were not false names but “other names”, belonging to distinct literary personalities. Not only were their styles different; they thought differently, they had different religious and political views, different aesthetic sensibilities, different social temperaments. And each produced a large body of poetry. Álvaro de Campos and Ricardo Reis also signed dozens of pages of prose.
The critic Harold Bloom referred to him in the book The Western Canon as the most representative poet of the twentieth century, along with Pablo Neruda.
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July 12, 2024
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February 2, 2017
Um dos meus livros preferidos de sempre, pois permite ao leitor ter uma noção muito mais "real" e intimista de Fernando Pessoa: o que lia, com quem se relacionava, o que pensava do futuro...
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