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EL GUARDADOR DE REBAÑOS: Alberto Caeiro
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) es uno de los mayores poetas de todos los tiempos. El poeta portugués es conocido sobre todo por sus heterónimos (él elaboraba sus obras como si hubiesen sido escritas por autores de personalidades y estilos muy diferentes), siendo los principales Álvaro de Campos, Alberto Caeiro y Ricardo Reis. El Guardador de Rebaños es la obra cumbre del heterónimo Alberto Caeiro. Este clásico se caracteriza por un intento de ver el mundo como es, sin que nuestros pensamientos, imaginaciones o "filosofías" estorben, falsifiquen realidad. Y es una de las más bellas reflexiones acerca de la la naturaleza y la vida, sus versos quedan para siempre en nuestra memoria. Esta traducción es moderna y a la vez fiel al original en portugués. Espero que la disfruten.
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Published December 2, 2024
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Fernando Pessoa
1,248 books6,341 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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