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Il secondo libro dell'inquietudine
Il "Livro do Desassossego" è costituito soprattutto da una disordinata collezione di frammenti nutriti dalla linfa del desassossego - dell'inquietudine esistenziale, dello spleen, del perturbante. L'opera originale è di fatto uno zibaldone, un diario mai licenziato dall'autore come opera chiusa e compiuta. Nel 1986, Maria José de Lancastre e Antonio Tabucchi tradussero e curarono per Feltrinelli la prima edizione italiana del Livro do Desassossego, proponendo una scelta ragionata di lacerti da poco definitivamente attribuiti a Bernardo Soares - tratti dai due volumi della cosiddetta edizione "T" Prado Coelho - che finalmente dava a conoscere al pubblico, tentando una prima compilazione in forma di libro, lo zibaldone di Bernardo Soares filologicamente ancora "in divenire". "Il secondo libro dell'inquietudine, a cura di Roberto Francavilla, completa il lavoro di Antonio Tabucchi e Maria José de Lancastre e gli rende omaggio (e proprio perciò contiene nel titolo l'arbitrio dell'aggettivo secondo).
288 pages, Paperback
Published May 24, 2018
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Fernando Pessoa
1,272 books6,477 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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