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Diários e Escritos Autobiográficos
283 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2022
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Fernando Pessoa
1,252 books6,374 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 18, 2022
dizer que amo a escrito do pessoa não seria nada de novo, mas poder ler mais sobre a sua vida pessoal, os seus pensamentos e o seu dia-a-dia foi uma experiência maravilhosa que me fez aperceber o quanto adoro este homem e o seu trabalho
November 7, 2025
Muito bom, extremamente informativo
November 7, 2023
Uma leitura essencial para compreender melhor a obra de Fernando Pessoa, se a quisermos relacionar com a personalidade, as ideias e os estados de espírito do seu autor. Não é uma resposta para as razões do desdobramento heteronímico, mas pode ajudar a iluminar as sombras do trabalho de escrita pessoano.
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