Português
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa was born in Lisbon, Portugal, on 13 June 1888. At the age of 7, he was brought to Durban, South Africa, where he received a British education and exceled in the study of languages. In 1903 he was awarded the Queen Victoria Memorial Prize for the best English essay amongst 899 university candidates. Pessoa started writing poetry in South Africa using various pseudonyms, most of which he later attributes to Alexander Search (pseudonym created in 1906). In August 1905, he returns
to Lisbon for good and ingresses into the Curso Superior de Letras (Faculty of Arts and Letters), which he leaves after two years. But, as an autodidact, studies philosophy, religion, sociology and literature, and through his life works as journalist, literary critic, translator, publisher, advertiser, politician and astrologer. It is of particular relevance his participation in the founding of Revista Orpheu (1915), the short-lived magazine that brought Modernism to Portugal, and the collaboration with Revista Presença since 1927. Pessoa dies at age 47, on 30 November 1935.
Fernando Pessoa is perhaps the only Portuguese writer who stands at the same level as Camões and other major figures in world literature. He signed texts under dozens of different names and brought out writers with their own styles: Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos – his most famous heteronyms: “I put in Caeiro all my power of dramatic depersonalization, I put in Ricardo Reis all my mental discipline, dressed in the music that is his own, I put in Álvaro de Campos all the emotion that I give neither to myself nor to life.” This edition presents a selection of the extraordinary poetry of Fernando Pessoa’s greatest poets.
Collection: Discovering the Classics
Author: Fernando Pessoa
Language: Portuguese
Measurements: 120×182 mm (softcover)
Pages: 124
Publisher: TEGNER-publishing, Lda
Chancela: CARRACK books
First edition: September 2024
