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Libro del desasosiego (13/20)
Texto inagotable hacia el que no cabe la indiferencia, el Libro del desasosiego responde a la inquisición ferozmente subjetiva e individualista que Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) ejerció sobre su propia persona. El tanteo, el titubeo, la propia extrañeza ante sí y ante el mundo, se encarnan en este libro fragmentario, proteico e insumiso, y en su propio autor, Bernardo Soares (persona interpuesta de Pessoa), insignificante auxiliar de contable, y la asombrosa galería de personajes de los cuales sienta personajes pequeños y a la par insondables, como enquistados en su propia nimiedad, que justifican el calificativo de "libro-sueño" que alguna vez se le ha adjudicado. Esta obra singular, en la que la expresión de la subjetividad alcanza su ápice, discurre desde la ficción al apunte conformando una experiencia única para el lector.
Edición y traducción de Manuel Moya
Edición y traducción de Manuel Moya
576 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 16, 2022
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Fernando Pessoa
1,252 books6,377 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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October 22, 2024
Qué belleza. Bernardo Soares te transporta a un mundo donde las máscaras, la sensibilidad excesiva y la incomprensión están a la orden del día, qué magnífica la manera de transmitir lo que es el desasosiego, con rastros de una filosofía absurdista, todo a través de una prosa cruda repleta de realismo. Muchísimas veces me sentí tan envuelta en sus textos que me impregnaba de esa desolación, su narrativa me hizo sentir tanto que tenía que pausar la lectura por momentos.
"No quería sentir la vida ni tocar las cosas, sabiendo por experiencia de mi temperamento contagiado por las cosas del mundo, que la sensación de vida siempre fue dolorosa para mí. Al evitar ese contacto me he aislado, y al aislarme exacerbé mi sensibilidad ya excesiva... Me equivoqué en el método de fuga". (P.48)
"No quería sentir la vida ni tocar las cosas, sabiendo por experiencia de mi temperamento contagiado por las cosas del mundo, que la sensación de vida siempre fue dolorosa para mí. Al evitar ese contacto me he aislado, y al aislarme exacerbé mi sensibilidad ya excesiva... Me equivoqué en el método de fuga". (P.48)
March 16, 2025
Cada párrafo una vida, cada frase una lección. Una obra maestra. Sin duda de mis libros favoritos.
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