See more ideas about fernando pessoa, words and quotes. Jun 02, 2001 the book of disquiet fernando pessoa, trans. The washington post book world has written that fernando pessoa was portugals 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. This is 19 minutes it contains notes 15 and includes pessoas preface where he claims to meet bernardo soares, the author of this book i. Published posthumously, the book of disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a factless autobiography. E fernando pessoa quem aponta bernardo soares como semiheteronimo. Fernando pessoa, il libro dellinquietudine di bernardo soares fernando pessoa, 1914 fernando antonio nogueira pessoa afi. Pessoa, fernando article about pessoa, fernando by the. In the book of disquiet, bernardo soares, an assistant bookkeeper in a lisbon fabrics firm, records impressions he doesnt expect to see published. Fernando pessoa 18881935 author of the book of disquiet. Under the orthonym fernando pessoa he did write an introduction, but he credited the texts themselves to two different authors, his semiheteronyms vicente guedes who endured his empty life with masterly indifference and bernardo soares, an assistant bookkeeper. The book of disquiet is the portuguese modernist master fernando pessoas greatest.
Nov 30, 2006 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Both heteronyms have the same job, a very similar biography, and both live in the. In bernardo soaress case, designed as the author of the book of disquiet, the identity does. Fernando pessoa books list of books by author fernando. The book of disquiet is written by one of his personas, bernardo soares, an assistant bookkeeper in an inconsequential office, as a diary or journal of ruminations on a life that, by his own admission, is truly not worthy of ruminating about. A modernist masterwork that has now taken on a similar iconic status to ulysses, the trial or in search of lost time, fernando pessoas the book of disquiet is edited and translated with an introduction by richard zenith in penguin modern classics. Written over the course of fernando pessoas life, it was first published in 1982, pieced together from the thousands of individual manuscript. Fernando pessoa drinking a glass of wine in a lisbon tavern in 1929. A modernist masterwork that has now taken on a similar iconic status to ulysses, the trial or in search of lost time, fernando pessoa s the book of disquiet is edited and translated with an introduction by richard zenith in penguin modern classics.
Fernando pessoa descreve o livro do desassossego, como sendo uma autobiografia faltando fatos. Fernando pessoa quotes author of the book of disquiet. The main characters of this poetry, fiction story are bernardo soares. Imagination, reality and the pleasure of masking and dreaming rodica grigore1 the portuguese writer fernando pessoa complicates the idea of fictionality, by underscoring the fact that the personality of soares the fictional author of the book of disquiet is neither his own nor com.
Lisbon has a certain number of eating establishments in which, on top of. By bernardo soares, assistant bookkeeper in the city of lisbon. The selected prose of fernando pessoa fernando pessoa. Fernando pessoa became bernardo soares, channeling each scrap of paper making up the book of disquiet through his alter ego. Mythologising the exiled self in james joyce and fernando. Join facebook to connect with bernardino soares and others you may know. May 30, 2002 a modernist masterwork that has now taken on a similar iconic status to ulysses, the trial or in search of lost time, fernando pessoa s the book of disquiet is edited and translated with an introduction by richard zenith in penguin modern classics. The book is made up of fragments of varying length, something like disconnected diary entries. He moved to durban, south africa, as a child, becoming bilingual portuguese, english.
Bernardo soares e um tipo particular dentre os heteronimos do poeta e escritor fernando pessoa. For its entire four hundred plus pages it offers a philosophy of a melancholic life, a philosophy of dreaming, and a philosophy of art. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa is one such modern masterpiece that i read last week. He is described by pessoa in his introduction, which is the one of the few concessions to literary conventions in the book, as in his thirties, thin, fairly tall, very hunched when sitting though less so when standing, and dressed. The book of disquiet also translated as the book of disquietude has a format somewhat like a journal or diary and is also a collection of vignettes and reflections.
Pessoa, fernando article about pessoa, fernando by the free. But no, shes abstract, is a bird, of sound in the air of air soaring, and her soul sings unencumbered, because the songs what makes her sing. For fernando pessoa the book functions as a generative and ideal con. Zeniths selection is beautifully translated, compact while appropriately diverse. Jul 20, 2018 this is 19 minutes it contains notes 15 and includes pessoas preface where he claims to meet bernardo soares, the author of this book i wonder if he really believed his heteronyms. Take the serpents tail edition of fernando pessoas the book of disquiet. He is distinguished as the most momentous literary figure of the 20th century who played a major role in the development of modernism in his country. I will take the position in this article of citing soares for the whole of the book as i see him as the more developed version of guedes, and final version and heteronym of the book.
Capitulo xi disponibilizado na revista nave da palavra, edicao n. The book is an aggregation of disparate diary entries that are abstract, dense, and at times, eccentric. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the us or from the uk, depending on stock availability. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. The book was published in multiple languages including italian, consists of 286 pages and is available in paperback format. Also included is a generous selection from pessoas masterpiece, the book of disquiet, freshly translated by richard zenith from newly discovered materials. Fernando pessoa bertrand livreiros livraria online. Fernando pessoa books list of books by author fernando pessoa. The book of disquiet was penned by bernardo soares, an assistant bookkeeper and unpublished poet and writer. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
In bernardo soares s case, designed as the author of the book of disquiet, the identity does. The book of disquiet fernando pessoa translator richard. The selected prose of fernando pessoa is an important record of a crucial part of the literary canon. In this extraordinary book, the putative factless autobiography of an accountant named bernardo soares, fernando pessoa explores and dismantles the nature of memory, identity, time and narrative, creating one of the greatest but also the strangest modernist texts. The fragmentary kinetics of writing in the book of disquiet jstor. The book of disquiet is one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. The first edition of the novel was published in 1982, and was written by fernando pessoa. Some portraits and other fictions, in pessoa plural a journal of fernando pessoa studies, n 2, fall, pp. Preface of fernando pessoa to the book of disquiet. Nunca pretendi ser senao um sonhador bernardo soares. The transformation book provides significant insight. Mythologising the exiled self in james joyce and fernando pessoa. Apicapic in the book of disquiet, bernardo soares, an assistant bookkeeper in a lisbon fabrics firm, records impressions he doesnt expect to see. Also included is a generous selection from pessoa s masterpiece, the book of disquiet, freshly translated by richard zenith from newly discovered materials.
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