Poemas/Fernando Pessoa; seleção e introdução de Cleonice Berardinelli

by Fernando Pessoa

Poeta das dúvidas e inquietações de ser humano frente a seu enigmático destino, Fenando Pessoas desdobrou-se (ou unificou-se?) en heterônimos, numa simplicidade tão complexa que a todos atrai e fascina. É poeta de grande público. buscado e amando especialmente pelos jovens, pelo que tem de intrigante e inquietador e pela sua surpreendente atualidade. Esta breve seleção de poemas, cuja publicação se inclui nas comemorações do cinquentenário de sua morte, foi organanizada pela professora Cleonice Berardinelli, uma das maiores conhecedoras do universo pessoano.

162 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Fernando 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.