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ANTES de que en 1982 apareciese Libro del desasosiego, era Mensagem el libro sobre el que descansaba la celebridad de Fernando Pessoa y tal vez siga siendo hoy su libro más editado y leído. Mensagem fue el único libro de poemas en portugués que Pessoa dio a las imprentas, apenas a un año de su muerte, pero su redacción comienza más de veinte años antes. Con este libro, el genio lisboeta trata de reconstruir el sueño nacional de un país que ha perdido el norte a la vez que señala un camino interior en torno a la figura del mítico rey Sebastián, muerto en la batalla de Alcazarquivir, quien siguiendo cierta mitología lusitana algún día reaparecerá, devolviendo a Portugal el esplendor perdido. Muchos lectores quieren ver en este libro una réplica a Os Lusíadas, de Camoens, y no les falta razón, pero Mensagem no es tanto un canto a las fatuas glorias del pasado, cuanto una respuesta a la oscuridad del presente y una visión iniciática que se dirige hacia el porvenir..

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'But no, she's abstract, is a birdOf sound in the air of air soaring,And her soul sings unencumberedBecause the song's what makes her sing.'Dramatic, lyrical and ranging over four distinct personae, these poems by one of Portugal's greatest poets trace a mind shaken by intense suffering and a tireless search for meaning.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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Fernando Pessoa (Lisboa, 1888-1935), es uno de los mayores autores de la literatura europea, además de emblema de las letras portuguesas. Personaje solitario y complejo, tan aficionado a la especulación y las paradojas, fruto tal vez de su educación británica, es hoy una de las figuras más enigmáticas y atractivas de la literatura occidental. Nació en el seno de la alta burguesía de Lisboa -a la que siempre se sentirá unido ideológica y espiritualmente- y, degradado desde la infancia a la condición de extraño y de extranjero (pasó parte de su infancia y juventud en Durban, Suráfrica), desarrollará a lo largo de su vida un cierto sentido de enajenación social, de feroz individualismo, incluso una actitud provocadora, a la vez que un deseo de integración, que le harán aparecer como un exiliado en su propia casa lisboeta. Aunque vivió del publicismo, la traducción y el comercio, desde joven se centró en la literatura y en su obra poética, desarrollada en un juego permanente de heterónimos

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Texto inagotable hacia el que no cabe la indiferencia, el ?Libro del desasosiego? responde a la inquisición ferozmente subjetiva e individualista que Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) ejerció sobre su propia persona. El tanteo, el titubeo, la propia extrañeza ante sí y ante el mundo, se encarnan en este libro fragmentario, proteico e insumiso, y en su propio autor, Bernardo Soares (persona interpuesta de Pessoa), insignificante auxiliar de contable, y la asombrosa galería de personajes de los cuales sienta registro: personajes pequeños y a la par insondables, como enquistados en su propia nimiedad, que justifican el calificativo de ?libro-sueño? que alguna vez se le ha adjudicado. Esta obra singular, en la que la expresión de la subjetividad alcanza su ápice, discurre desde la ficción al apunte conformando una experiencia única para el lector.Edición y traducción de Manuel Moya

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Cualquier poema verdadero se nos aparece originalmente como la luz donse se nos permite ver lo que hasta antes de él no veíamos. Así, el mismo poema se convierte en guía de quien lo lee. Y de eso se trata: de leer los poemas que Pessoa reunió bajo la firma de Alberto Caeiro, dejándose orientar por ellos. Este segundo volumen recoge los Poemas inconjuntos y los Apéndices.

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'Author of paradoxes as clear as water and, as water, dizzying ...mysterious man who does not cultivate mystery, mysterious as the mid-day moon, taciturn phantom of the Portuguese mid-day - who is Pessoa?' asks Octavio Paz. This collection of the work of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) answers that question. It is an essential introduction to the work of one of the most original European poets of the twentieth century. It includes translations of a broad selection of his poems and his extraordinary prose, and some of his original English writings. A major introductory essay by Octavio Paz, a critical anthology, two posthumous 'interviews' and illustrations from the Pessoa archive are also included, to reveal the world of Pessoa in all its richness.

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Del baúl que Fernando Pessoa legó a la posteridad?de donde salen los papeles manuscritos o mecanografiados, firmados por diferentes personajes, que conforman buena parte de su obra?surgió un misterioso cuaderno de tapas negras atribuido al Barón de Teive, que comenzaba con una decidida afirmación de voluntad suicida y que iba encabezado con el subtítulo la imposibilidad de hacer arte superior. Más que un manual teórico o una guía de consejos prácticos para la vida?o para la muerte?, La educación del estoico es crónica personal de todo un camino voluntariosamente dispuesto: el ejercicio de la razón y sus armas para erradicar el dolor y, consecuentemente, la abdicación?lúcida, implacable, irónica? ante la vida.

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Este volumen reúne doce relatos que brindan al lector la oportunidad de descubrir otra faceta del vasto y cambiante universo narrativo de Fernando Pessoa. Estos cuentos, ora paradójicos, cuando las situaciones presentadas desafíanel sentido común, ora incluso cercanos a la fábula, cuando concluyen con una moraleja, o filosóficos, cuando plantean diálogos con enigmáticos maestros que asumen distintos rostros de un cuento a otro (el mendigo, el eremita, el borracho), enigmas impenetrables, hipótesis metafísicas o temas de la tradición esotérica. Con ellos Pessoa nos invita a realizar un viaje iniciático a una dimensión distinta, sorprendente incluso para los lectoresmás familiarizados con la obra del escritorlisboeta.

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El núcleo de la poesía de Pessoa-Caeiro es la simple, sencilla, natural, evidente existencia de las cosas, especialmente de los elementos de la naturaleza; externas a los hombres, a su intervención, iguales a ellos en autonomía. Con este primer volumen se iniciamos la publicación de una nueva edición bilingüe de la obra poética de Fernando Pessoa.

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Message is one of the greatest poems in the whole of Portuguese literature. It was also Fernando Pessoa's only book written in Portuguese to be published during his lifetime. At the time of its release, in October of 1934 (just over a year before the author's death), Europe of the Enlightenment and freedom was succumbing to the advance of modern dictatorships, the escalation of expansionary nationalisms and a brand of imperialism based on atheistic materialism which, half a decade later, would trigger the Second World War. It is out of this atmosphere of general European decline, and with unwavering focus on his own country in particular, that Pessoa orchestrates his Message: a telling of the great events and protagonists behind the genesis of Portugal, of the golden age of maritime discovery and of subsequent national entropy, all of it predictive and flowing towards the future construction of a new and different empire: the Fifth Empire, which, in the author's vision, would be a m

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First published in 1982, this is the factless autobiography of Bernardo Soares, one of the 72 literary personae or heteronyms with which Fernando Pessoa created the theatre of his absence. The circular text returns again and again to a protagonist desperate to find out who he is.

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In 1999, translator Richard Zenith made a new find in the Pessoa archive in Lisbon: a group of prose writings by a previously unknown heteronym, the Baron of Teive.' The Portuguese volume of these writings has been received by scholars as a crucial piece of the puzzle that is Pessoa's oeuvre. The Education of the Stoic is the unique work left by the Baron of Teive, who, after destroying all his previous literary attempts and before destroying himself, explains 'the impossibility of producing superior art.' It is the dark companion piece to The Book of Disquiet.'

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Encuadernación: Rústica He sido siempre bastante lúcido. Sentía rebeldía y quería entenderla. Me volví anarquista consciente y convicto: el anarquista consciente y convicto que soy ahora. Con estas rotundas palabras se nos presenta el personaje central de esta ficción, en la que se desarrolla de manera magistral la extraña historia, motivaciones y razones de un peculiar banquero. En esta obra maestra del escritor más universal que han dado las letras portuguesas, Fernando Pessoa, el autor explora sutilmente la contradicción humana y sus múltiples proyecciones, con la original herramienta que él mismo denominaba sátira dialéctica, para construir con laberíntica habilidad uno de sus más memorables textos .

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Dominada por un sentimiento de radical soledad y desgarrada entre sentimiento y pensamiento, racionalismo e irracionalismo, tradición y modernidad, la poesía de Fernando Pessoa constituye una de las expresiones más lúcidas y dramáticas de la crisis del hombre contemporáneo. Su poesía está encuadrada en el marco general del modernismo que responde en líneas generales a la expresión del drama íntimo del artista, al individualismo creador y a la búsqueda de un nuevo lenguaje.La compleja personalidad de Pessoa se expresa a través de la invención de numerosos heterónimos, con los que firma su obra, dotado cada uno de rasgos bien diferenciados y biografía propia. En este volumen aparecen tres de los más utilizados por Pessoa: Alberto Caeiro, autor de breves poemarios, poeta bucólico esencialmente pagano que se propone restituir la Naturaleza Absoluta al mundo civilizado; Ricardo Reis, " latinista por formación y semihelenista por devoción " , el poeta de la disciplina y la exactitud menta

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The prizewinning, complete and unabridged translation—“the best English-language version we are likely to see for a long time, if ever” (The Guardian)—of a work of unclassifiable genius: the crowning achievement of Portugal’s modern masterEdited, Translated, and with an Introduction by Richard Zenith, the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Pessoa: A Biography Winner of the Calouste Gulbenkian Translation Prize for Portuguese Translation A Penguin Classic 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. When he died in 1935, Pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable pages that make up his posthumous masterpiece, The Book of Disquiet, an astonishing work that, in George Steiner'

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Fernando Pessoa (Lisboa, 1888-1935), es autor de una de las obras poéticas más sugerentes y trascendentales de nuestro siglo. Abierta a las corrientes más innovadoras, su poesía es sensual e intuitiva, mágica y abstracta. Alberto Caeiro, uno de los heterónimos en los que Pessoa se desdoblaba en su obra, fue poeta bucólico, maestro de Ricardo Reis y de Álvaro de Campos, que se aplicó a una reconstrucción ideal del paganismo, en su esencia absoluta, tal como un filósofo antimetafísico. La poesía de Pessoa está considerada como la expresión más cabal de las crisis contemporáneas del espíritu, concretándola en la desintegración del propio individuo. Traducción de Pablo del Barco. Edición bilingüe.

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The writing of Fernando Pessoa reveals a mind shaken by intense inner suffering. In these poems he adopted four separate personae: Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis and himself, using them to express 'great swarms of thought and feeling'. While each personae has its own poetic identity, together they convey a sense of ambivalence and consolidate a striving for completeness. Dramatic, lyrical, Christian, pagan, old and modern, Pessoa's poets and poetry contribute to the 'mysterious importance of existence'.

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"At last, at last, at last, Pessoa again! More Pessoa! One of the very great poets of the twentieth century, again and more! And one of the fascinating figures of all literature, with his manifold identities, his amazing audacities, his brilliance and his shyness. I think I have under control the reluctance I feel in having to share Pessoa with the public he should have had all along in America: until now, only the poets, so far as I can tell, have even heard of him, and delighted and exulted in him. He is, in some ways, the poet of modernism, the only one willing to fracture himself into the parcels of action, anguish, and nostalgia which are the grounds of our actual situation." --C. K. Williams "Pessoa is one of the great originals (a fact rendered more striking by his writing as several distinct personalities) of the European poetry of the first part of this century, and has been one of the last poets of comparable stature, in the European languages, to become known in English. Edwin Honig's translations of Spanish and Portuguese poetry have been known to anyone who cares about either, since his work on Lorca in the forties, and his Selected Poems of Pessoa (1971) was a welcome step toward a long-awaited larger colection." -- W. S. Merwin "Fernando Pessoa is the least known of the masters of the twentieth-century poetry. From his heteronymic passion he produced, if that is the word, two of our greatest poets, Alberto Caeiro and Alvaro de Campos, and a third, Ricardo Reis, who isn't bad. Pessoa is the exemplary poet of the self as other, of the poem as testament to unreality, proclamation of nothingness, occasion for expectancy. In Edwin Honig's and Susan Brown's superb translations, Pessoa and his "others" live with miraculous style and vitality." --Mark Strand 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.

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"After looking for him in the poems, we search for him in the prose. The pursuit of the Other in Pessoa's work is never-ending," writes Edwin Honig. Essential to understanding the great Portuguese poet are the essays written about (and by) his heteronyms--Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, and Alvaro de Campos--the several pseudonyms under which he wrote an extraordinary body of poetry. In Always Astonished, Pessoa and his several selves debate and discuss one another's work, revealing how Portuguese modernism was shaped. Fernando Pessoa is one of the great voices of twentieth-century literature, and these manifestos, letters, journal notes, and critical essays range through aesthetics, lyric poetry, dramatic and visual arts, and the psychology of the artist. He gives us, too, a singularly heterodox political position in his strange work of fiction, The Anarchist Banker. "Eloquent, volatile and obsessed with life--and death--[Pessoa is one of the] modernist giants in whose shadow we live and who made our century one of the extraordinary richness."--The New York Times "Only a few years ago Fernando Pessoa was all but invisible in English. Now this outsider's outsider looms as the latest icon of modern poetry. Eugenio Lisboa devised A Centenary Pessoa in 1995, a lavish miscellany of poems, essays, biography, photographs, even paintings he inspired. Edwin Honig and Susan M. Brown reissued Poems of Fernando Pessoa, along with Honig's Always Astonished, a selected prose."-Robert Polito, BOMB Magazine 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.

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With its astounding hardcover reviews Richard Zenith's new complete translation of THE BOOK OF DISQUIET has now taken on a similar iconic status to ULYSSES, THE TRIAL or IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME as one of the greatest but also strangest modernist texts. An assembly of sometimes linked fragments, it is a mesmerising, haunting 'novel' without parallel in any other culture.

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This is the largest and richest volume of poetry by Pessoa available in English. It includes generous selections from the three poetic alter egos that the Portuguese writer dubbed "heteronyms" - Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Alvaro de Campos - and from the vast and varied work he wrote under his own name.

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A new Interpretation and a new English Translation with the original Portuguese EditionThe story of The Anarchist Banker takes place in a Lisbon café where the narrator meets an old friend, now a wealthy banker. He questions his friend about his anarchist origins and discovers to his amazement that the banker still considers himself to be an anarchist. The story revolves around the banker's vigorous defense of his position and his assertion that he is the only genuine anarchist among the banker's so-called anarchist friends. This is a bilingual English/Portuguese edition.

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Message, one of the greatest poems in the whole of Portuguese literature, was Fernando Pessoa's only book written in Portuguese to be published during his lifetime. It is out of an atmosphere of general European decline, and with unwavering focus on his own country in particular, that Pessoa orchestrates his Message: a telling of the great events and protagonists behind the genesis of Portugal, of the golden age of maritime discovery and of subsequent national entropy, all of it predictive and flowing towards the future construction of a new and different empire: the Fifth Empire, which, in the author's vision, would be a matrix of spirituality, messianism and millenarianism. Edited by António Apolinário Lourenço. Translation by Martin Earl and illustrations by Fatinha Ramos.

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Here, in Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari’s splendid new translations, are the complete poems of Alberto Caeiro, the imaginary “heteronym” coterie created by Fernando Pessoa, the Portuguese modernist master. Pessoa conceived Caeiro around 1914 and may have named him loosely after his friend, the poet Mário de Sa-Cárrneiro. What followed was a collection of some of Fernando Pessoa’s greatest poems, grouped under the titles The Keeper of Sheep, The Shepherd in Love, and Uncollected Poems. This imaginary author was a shepherd who spent most of his life in the countryside, had almost no education, and was ignorant of most literature; yet he (Pessoa) wrote some of the most beautiful and profound poems in Portuguese literature. This edition of The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro is based on the magnificent Portuguese Tinta-da-China edition, published in Lisbon in 2016, and contains an illuminating introduction by the Portuguese editors Jerónimo Pizarro and Patricio Ferrari, some facsimiles of the original Portuguese texts, and prose excerpts about Caeiro and his work written by Fernando Pessoa well as his other heteronyms Álvaro de Campos and Ricardo Reis, and other fictitious authors such as Antonio Mora and I. I. Crosse.

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The Book of Disquiet is one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. Written over the course of Fernando Pessoa's life, it was first published in 1982, pieced together from the thousands of individual manuscript pages left behind by Pessoa after his death in 1935. Now this fragmentary modernist masterpiece appears in a major new edition that unites Margaret Jull Costa's celebrated translation with the most complete version of the text ever produced. It is presented here, for the first time in English, by order of original composition, and accompanied by facsimiles of the original manuscript. Narrated principally by an assistant bookkeeper named Bernardo Soares - an alias of sorts for Pessoa himself - The Book of Disquiet is 'the autobiobraphy of someone who never existed', a mosaic of dreams, of hope and despair; a hymn to the streets and cafés of 1930s Lisbon, and an extraordinary record of the inner life of one of the century's most important writers. This new edition represents the most complete vision of Pessoa's genius.

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Poesia. First Anthology offers English-language readers a bilingual edition of the first anthology that was made of Fernando Pessoa's poetic work. Edited and introduced by Adolfo Casais Monteiro in the 1940s, it comprises a fine selection of poems as well as several prose texts, including the letter Pessoa addressed to Casais Monteiro explaining the origin of his heteronyms. The book includes a preface by George Monteiro and an essay by Eduardo Lourenço. Translation by Austen Hyde and illustrations by Kleber Sales.

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Álvaro de Campos is one of the most influential heteronyms created by Portugal’s great modernist writer Fernando Pessoa. According to Pessoa, Campos was born in Tavira (Algarve) in 1890 and studied mechanical engineering in Glasgow, although he never managed to complete his degree. In his own day, Campos was celebrated—and slandered—for his vociferous poetry imbued with a Whitman-inspired free verse, his praise of the rise of technology and his polemical views that appeared in manifestos, interviews and essays. Here in Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari’s translations are the complete poems of Campos. This edition is based on the Portuguese Tinta-da-china edition and includes an illuminating introduction about Campos by the Portuguese editors Jerónimo Pizarro and Antonio Cardiello, facsimiles of original manuscripts and a generous selection of Campos’s prose texts.

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Sitting at his desk, Bernardo Soares imagined himself free forever of Rua dos Douradores, of his boss Vasques, of Moreira the book-keeper, of all the other employees, the errand boy, the post boy, even the cat. But if he left them all tomorrow and discarded the suit of clothes he wears, what else would he do? Because he would have to do something. And what suit would he wear? Because he would have to wear another suit. A self-deprecating reflection on the sheer distance between the loftiness of his feelings and the humdrum reality of his life, The Book of Disquiet is a classic of existentialist literature.

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The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa’s greatest literary achievement. An “autobiography” or “diary” containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions. Now, for the first time the texts are presented chronologically, in a complete English edition by master translator Margaret Jull Costa. Most of the texts in The Book of Disquiet are written under the semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares, an assistant bookkeeper. This existential masterpiece was first published in Portuguese in 1982, forty-seven years after Pessoa’s death. A monumental literary event, this exciting, new, complete edition spans Fernando Pessoa’s entire writing life.

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