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Conselhos às Malcasadas
"We know nothing about Fernando Pessoa's sexuality. Did he die a virgin? Was he a perverse poly morph? Impossible to know. We know, rather, his writings, where sex, eroticism and desire often arise. This is an anthology of these texts, by Fernando Pessoa and hisheteronyms Álvaro de Campos, Bernardo Soares, Barão de Teive, António Mora and Maria José.
Pessoa swears that all voluptuousness comes from the brain. He advised women to betray their husbands, but only in thought, since in flesh such betrayal would be banal and plebeian. But this is also the same Pessoa who throws himself at Ophélia, kissing her greedily and stumbling, writing her ridiculous letters, as he said they all love letters are ridiculous.
In short, the superiority of the spirit in relation to matter, but where doubts sometimes arise - is it all pretense?
Thus, we propose that the reader accompanies us, not to the poet's ark, but to his bed. And share with him the exaltation of love: sensuality, desire, sex. With him and with his heteronyms, in a beautiful literary orgy."
From: https://www.wook.pt/livro/conselhos-a...
Pessoa swears that all voluptuousness comes from the brain. He advised women to betray their husbands, but only in thought, since in flesh such betrayal would be banal and plebeian. But this is also the same Pessoa who throws himself at Ophélia, kissing her greedily and stumbling, writing her ridiculous letters, as he said they all love letters are ridiculous.
In short, the superiority of the spirit in relation to matter, but where doubts sometimes arise - is it all pretense?
Thus, we propose that the reader accompanies us, not to the poet's ark, but to his bed. And share with him the exaltation of love: sensuality, desire, sex. With him and with his heteronyms, in a beautiful literary orgy."
From: https://www.wook.pt/livro/conselhos-a...
120 pages, Paperback
Published June 1, 2018
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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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July 29, 2019
Es una pena que el título solo sea una trampa para atraer a personas como yo. Por lo demás, la tesis de la virginidad de Pessoa me abrió una puerta de posibilidades que ya había sospechado, pero de las que no estoy completamente convencida.
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May 21, 2020Antologia de textos de Fernando Pessoa, ortónimo e heterónimos, sobre o corpo, com forte pendor sexual e erótico.
ISBN: 978-989-702-405-4
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821.134.3-82
Livro recomendado PNL2027 - 2019 2.º Sem. - Poesia - Vida Prática - maiores 18 anos - Mediana
ISBN: 978-989-702-405-4
CDU:
821.134.3-82
Livro recomendado PNL2027 - 2019 2.º Sem. - Poesia - Vida Prática - maiores 18 anos - Mediana
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