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Fernando Pessoa

    13 juni 1888 – 30 november 1935

    Fernando Pessoa was een Portugese dichter en schrijver, algemeen beschouwd als een van de meest vooraanstaande literaire figuren van de 20e eeuw. Hij staat bekend om zijn baanbrekende gebruik van 'heteroniemen' – afzonderlijke literaire persoonlijkheden met hun eigen unieke stijlen, filosofieën en temperamenten, waardoor hij een breed scala aan poëtische expressie kon verkennen. Elk heteroniem, zoals Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis en Álvaro de Campos, bood een andere stem en wereldbeeld, wat bijdroeg aan een veelzijdig en diepgaand oeuvre. Pessoa's innovatieve benadering van auteurschap creëerde een rijk tapijt van de Portugese literatuur.

    Fernando Pessoa
    The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro
    Forever Someone Else
    The Book of Disquiet
    Fernando Pessoa and Co.
    Poems of Fernando Pessoa
    Fernando Pessoa Gedichten
    • Fernando Pessoa is Portugal's most important contemporary poet. He wrote under several identities, which he called heteronyms: Albet Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, and Bernardo Soares. He wrote fine poetry under his own name as well, and each of his "voices" is completely different in subject, temperament, and style. This volume brings back into print the comprehensive collection of his work published by Ecco Press in 1986.

      Poems of Fernando Pessoa
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    • Fernando Pessoa and Co.

      Selected Poems

      • 320bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen

      The book features the remarkable poetry of Fernando Pessoa, a key figure in modern European literature, known for his unique alter egos: Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, and Álvaro de Campos. This updated edition collects his most significant works, showcasing a range from minimalism to exuberance. Translator Richard Zenith highlights Pessoa's innovative exploration of human consciousness and his profound impact on 20th-century poetry, emphasizing both the depth and humor found in his writing.

      Fernando Pessoa and Co.
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    • The Book of Disquiet

      • 262bladzijden
      • 10 uur lezen

      A prize-winning international classic, first published in English in 1993, now with a new foreword by William Boyd.

      The Book of Disquiet
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    • Forever Someone Else

      Selected Poems

      • 319bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen

      'Forever Someone Else' offers a selection of the poetry written by Pessoa under his own name and in the names of the personas he called 'heteronyms' - Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos.

      Forever Someone Else
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    • The largest and richest English-language volume of poetry from “the greatest twentieth-century writer you have never heard of” (Los Angeles Times) Edited, Translated, and with an Introduction by Richard Zenith, the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Pessoa: A Biography A Penguin Classic Writing obsessively in French, English, and Portuguese, poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) left a prodigious body of work, much of it credited to three “heteronyms”―Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, and Alvaro de Campos―alter egos with startlingly different styles, points of view, and biographies. Offering a unique sampling of his most famous voices, this collection features Pessoa’s major, best-known works and several stunning poems that have come to light only in this century, including his long, highly autobiographical swan song. Featuring a rich body of work that has never before been translated into English, this is the finest introduction available to the stunning breadth of Pessoa’s genius.

      A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe
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    • The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa

      • 342bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen

      The Washington Post Book World has written that Fernando Pessoa was "Portugal's greatest writer of the twentieth century [though] some critics would even leave off that last qualifying phrase" and "one of the most appealing European modernists, equal in command and range to his contemporaries Rilke and Mandelstam." The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001, spans playful philosophical inquiry, Platonic dialogue, and bitter intellectual scrapping between Pessoa and his many literary alter egos ("heteronyms"). The heteronyms launch movements and write manifestos, and one of them attempts to break up Pessoa's only known romantic relationship. Also included is a generous selection from Pessoa's masterpiece, The Book of Disquiet, freshly translated by Richard Zenith from newly discovered materials. The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa is an important record of a crucial part of the literary canon. "Zenith's selection is beautifully translated, compact while appropriately diverse." -- Benjamin Kunkel, Los Angeles Times "[Pessoa] is one of those writers as addictive, and endearing, as Borges and Calvino." -- Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World

      The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
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    • Selected Poems

      • 160bladzijden
      • 6 uur lezen

      Contains poems that features four separate personae who have their own poetic identity. This title contribute to the 'mysterious importance of existence'. schovat popis

      Selected Poems
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    • Poetry - Minimal Anthology

      • 320bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen

      THE MOST CONCISE ANTHOLOGY OF THE VASTEST OF POETS This book is an invitation to «unlearn Pessoa,» to use an expression by the master, Alberto Caeiro, and to read him as if we had just discovered him. Contrary to a recent tendency to locate the poet in a new setting—less literary and cultural, more urban and utilitarian—this Minimal Anthology proposes the discovery or rediscovery of Fernando Pessoa through some of the twentieth century’s most astonishing poems: from «Maritime Ode» to «Tobacco Shop,» moving through «Slanting Rain,« «The Monster,» «The Keeper of Flocks,» «Opiary,» «Autopsychography,» and many lesser‑known poems, all of them revealing a genius that continues to elicit shock, delight, and admiration. The essential poetry of Fernando Pessoa and his principal heteronyms, in an edition by Jerónimo Pizarro. Also available in Portuguese.

      Poetry - Minimal Anthology
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