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Poesie esoteriche
L'importanza del pensiero esoterico nell'opera di Pessoa è andata emergendo sempre più chiaramente negli ultimi anni, e tale rilevanza si rivela ampiamente anche nella sua produzione poetica, soprattutto a partire dal 1930. In questo volume sono raccolti i suoi componimenti più significativi, molti tradotti per la prima volta, ispirati dall'interesse per l'occultismo, la magia, lo spiritismo: versi in cui appaiono, in mirabili variazioni, temi quali la falsità e l'irrealtà di questo mondo, la vita umana come sonno e oblio, il cammino iniziatico.
- GenresPoetry
147 pages, Paperback
Published August 1, 2008
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Fernando Pessoa
1,248 books6,344 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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December 11, 2018
A tratti inquietanti, ma decisamente suggestive, queste poesie mescolano una riflessione filosofica acuta ad un sottile male di vivere che permea le parole pur non essendo espresso in chiaro.Le visioni che si dilatano nell'atto poetico sono l'espressione della speranza di riuscire a comprendere, a cogliere e infine a raggiungere quell'alterità della realtà che egli presentiva.
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