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Le jour triomphal: Lettres sur l'origine des hétéronymes Fernando Pessoa et Richard Zenith 2026
La lettre la plus célèbre de Fernando Pessoa à son ami et admirateur, l'écrivain Adolfo Casais Monteiro, dans laquelle il explique, entre autres, la genèse de ses hétéronymes et leurs biographies, ainsi que ses plans de publication de son œuvre et son intérêt pour l'occultisme. Le terme hétéronyme, employé par l'auteur, désigne une personnalité littéraire pourvue d'une biographie, d'un style littéraire et d'idées distinctes de l'auteur lui-même.
Fernando Pessoa, un escritor volcánico
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El universo descifrado de Fernando Pessoa que anticipó el futuro fragmentado del ser humano
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The Literary Games of Fernando Pessoa
If ever a writer was fated to bear a particular name, it was Fernando Pessoa. In Portuguese the word pessoa means “person”; in Latin it means “mask” or “character.” Pessoa spent his life adopting personas, masks, and characters from almost the moment he began his writing career. These alternative personalities were still Pessoa, even when he signed his works under a pseudonym. Many of his alter egos were poets like himself, although only a few were Portuguese.
Richard Zenith e as cantigas galego-portuguesas: "Nesse mundo, há uma efervescência de vida, de fazer, de amar. E isso é muito bonito"
“O mar é uma presença muito forte nesta e noutras cantigas”, concluiu o investigador, destacando a forte ligação dos habitantes da região ocidental da Península Ibérica, em especial os portugueses, com o oceano. “Fala-se das Descobertas, e claro que o mar era central na consciência coletiva portuguesa, até hoje, mas as cantigas são muito anteriores. Já nessa altura existia uma presença muito forte do mar. Parece que já fazia parte da consciência coletiva dessa região”, sugeriu o investigador.
Cantigas
Hardcover Price: $19.95 / £14.99 ISBN: Published (US): May 17, 2022 Published (UK): Jul 12, 2022 Copyright: 2022 Pages: 384 Size: 6.12 x 9.25 in. Paperback Price: $19.95 / £14.99 ISBN: Published (US): May 17, 2022 Published (UK): Jul 12, 2022 Copyright: 2022 Pages: 384 Size: 6.12 x 9.25 in. ebook Price: $19.95 / £14.99 ISBN: Published (US): May 17, 2022 Published (UK): Jul 12, 2022 Copyright: 2022 Pages: 384 Size: 6.12 x 9.25 in.
Fernando Pessoa e o “Livro do Desassossego”: 40 anos da obra impossível
O maior desafio de Fernando Pessoa quando retomou a escrita do Livro no final dos anos 20 terá sido a falta de harmonia entre os textos da primeira fase e os da segunda. O poeta chegou mesmo a considerar mexer nos trechos anteriores, adaptando-os à “vera psicologia” de Bernardo Soares. “O carácter do livro foi mudando. Começou a ser mais um diário do pensamento, de sentimentos, mas também com algumas reflexões sobre arte, escrita, que não são bem textos diarísticos. Era uma variedade de textos.
Fernando Pessoa's Life Just Bizarre
Few of the poet Fernando Pessoa’s diaries survive, mostly businesslike lists of classes he attended or didn’t attend, people he met roaming the cafés of Lisbon, and daily activities. The most intriguing thing about these diaries is that they were generally written by someone else. For a few months shortly before he turned 18, Pessoa had a diary rubber-stamped on the top right corner of every page with its author’s name: “C. R.
Richard Zenith: “Fernando Pessoa era como um cientista, sempre a fazer experiências sobre o seu próprio ser”
05 set 2021, 16:24 Foram precisos 12 anos para que Zenith sentisse que tinha a biografia de Pessoa que queria fazer. Hoje sabe que o conhece melhor, mas continua sem o conseguir explicar: isso "seria uma contradição". 05 set 2021, 16:24 Escrever sobre quem foi Fernando Pessoa não é fácil. Figura reservada, enigmática e fugidia, tentar desenhar-lhe os traços e compor-lhe a vida pode ser uma tarefa “insana” que nunca dará os frutos desejados.
I haven’t been I
As he grew older, Fernando Pessoa became less visible, as though he were inexorably being subsumed by dreams and shadows. The French translator and scholar Pierre Hourcade, who visited Lisbon in 1933, remembered leaving a café with Pessoa, and walking with him for a few blocks.
Reviewed in the LRB - Vol. 43 No. 16
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Alberto Manguel - Strange Case of Dr Nabos & Mr Reis
The art of biography (which Kipling called ‘higher cannibalism’) involves being remarkably picky. Even when the whole of the subject’s body is laid on the table for consumption, one biographer goes for the heart, the other for the head, a third for the guts or the feet. Few biographies offer a full-course meal because a truly comprehensive representation of any one person is almost impossible.
A Literature on the Brink of Dawn
Fernando Pessoa. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. One afternoon while browsing in the English bookstore, located midway between two of the offices where he worked for a few hours nearly every day, Fernando Pessoa spotted a copy of James Joyce’s Ulysses.
Laureate of Lisbon - The American Scholar
Michaela Loheit (Flickr/michi_loheit) Pessoa: A Biography by Richard Zenith; Liveright, 1,088 pp., $40 On sunny summer days in central Lisbon, you might witness a certain happening amid the umbrella tables in front of a popular café. Foreign tourists wait their turn to have a photo taken with the life-size bronze sculpture of a seated man.
New Literature in Translation: July 2021 by Jeremy Garber
Lists New Literature in Translation: July 2021 by Jeremy Garber, July 22, 2021 11:39 AM With the summer season in full swing (and the potent portent of late June’s record-setting PNW temperatures seared into memory), hopefully this month brings a repose figurative, literal, and literary. What could pair better with kulfi, Halo-Halo, affogato, cholados, paletas, cendol, or Snoopy sno-cones than 9 newly translated titles (and a bonus biography)?
The Heteronymous Identities of Fernando Pessoa
When the ever elusive Fernando Pessoa died in Lisbon, in the fall of 1935, few people in Portugal realized what a great writer they had lost. None of them had any idea what the world was going to gain: one of the richest and strangest bodies of literature produced in the twentieth century. Although Pessoa lived to write and aspired, like poets from Ovid to Walt Whitman, to literary immortality, he kept his ambitions in the closet, along with the larger part of his literary universe.
The Year of the Birth of Alberto Caeiro
from Pessoa: A Biography By RICHARD ZENITH The following chapter from Pessoa: A Biography, forthcoming from Norton/Liveright, tells the story of how Alberto Caeiro, Fernando Pessoa’s first major heteronym, came into existence. The other full-fledged heteronyms, Álvaro de Campos and Ricardo Reis, would emerge three months later.
Multitudinous Heart: Selected Poems: A Bilingual Edition
Multitudinous Heart (Paperback) Selected Poems: A Bilingual Edition By Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Richard Zenith (Translated by) Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 9780374535490, 432pp. Publication Date: June 23, 2015 List Price: 25.00* * Individual store prices may vary. Description The most indispensable poems of Brazil's greatest poet Brazil, according to no less an observer than Elizabeth Bishop, is a place where poets hold a place of honor.
Book of Disquiet
Synopses & Reviews Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology. and horoscope.
Colm Tóibín · LRB
Pessoa evokes the city of Lisbon with a nostalgia all the more intense because he has not lost it. Sometimes he is nearly a novelist, managing to make his own quotidian life almost credible and his voice, as he narrates ‘my factless autobiography, my lifeless history’, almost real. What he doesn’t do in ‘my haphazard book of musings’ is relax his control. He can be precise, exact and restrained – like a chess player or a mathematician. But the thinking in The Book of Disquiet is almost light.
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