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Prosa Escolhida de Álvaro de Campos
Na sua célebre carta de 1935 sobre a génese dos heterónimos, Pessoa confessou ter "chorado lágrimas verdadeiras" ao escrever algumas das "Notas para a Recordacao do Meu Mestre Caeiro" de Álvaro de Campos, que contam os saborosos encontros e conversas que supostamente houve entre Caeiro, Campos, Ricardo Reis, António Mora e o próprio Fernando Pessoa. Campos, enquanto prosador, também assinou textos importantíssimos como o "Ultimatum" e "Apontamento para uma Estética Nao-Aristotélica", cartas para jornais e uma carta para Marinetti, artigos sobre vários temas e até uma "entrevista sensacional". O presente volume reúne a sua melhor prosa e inlcui textos inéditos.
173 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2015
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Fernando Pessoa
1,252 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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May 12, 2017
Esta prosa contiene una especie de discusión poética-filosófica entre el Tal Fernando, Ricardo Reis, Alberto Caeiro, Antonio Mora y Álvaro de Campos que permite un acercamiento a la personalidad de cada uno, lo cual, si han leído a los heterónimos por separado, tiene un gran valor puesto que nos ilustra sobre el porqué del tipo de versos que escribe cada uno.
Álvaro de Campos es el heterónimo que tiene (según se lee) más interacción con el mundo real de Pessoa.
Esa admiración de Campos por el Maestro Caeiro la imagino como una especie de simpático auto fanatismo al reconocer el talento de los textos e ideas más brillantes que uno mismo escribió.
El Manifiesto Ultimatum es una joya, vigente en cualquier época. Está también una entrevista imperdible de un tal Augusto Ferreira Gómes, una carta real que Pessoa contestó como Álvaro de Campos con exactamente las preguntas que alguno querría hacerle a su escritor favorito.
Un par de textos sobre filosofía y estética aristotélica me costó entender, pero no deja de sorprenderme.
Álvaro de Campos es el heterónimo que tiene (según se lee) más interacción con el mundo real de Pessoa.
Esa admiración de Campos por el Maestro Caeiro la imagino como una especie de simpático auto fanatismo al reconocer el talento de los textos e ideas más brillantes que uno mismo escribió.
El Manifiesto Ultimatum es una joya, vigente en cualquier época. Está también una entrevista imperdible de un tal Augusto Ferreira Gómes, una carta real que Pessoa contestó como Álvaro de Campos con exactamente las preguntas que alguno querría hacerle a su escritor favorito.
Un par de textos sobre filosofía y estética aristotélica me costó entender, pero no deja de sorprenderme.
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