Português
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa was born in Lisbon, Portugal, on June 13, 1888. At the age of 7, he was taken to Durban, South Africa, where he received a British education and excelled in the study of languages. In 1903 he received the Queen Victoria Memorial Prize for the best English-language paper written out of 899 university entries. Pessoa began writing poetry in South Africa using various pseudonyms, most of which he later attributed to Alexander Search (a pseudonym created in 1906). In August 1905, he returned to Lisbon permanently and enrolled in the Higher Education Course in Letters (Faculty of Arts and Letters), which he abandoned after two years. But, as an autodidact, he studied philosophy, religion, sociology and literature, and throughout his life he worked as a journalist, literary critic, translator, editor, publicist, politician and astrologer. Of particular relevance is his participation in the founding of Revista Orpheu (1915), the short-lived magazine that brought Modernism to Portugal, and his collaboration with Revista Presença since 1927. Pessoa died at the age of 47, on November 30, 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 with dozens of different names and created three more writers with their own styles: Ricardo Reis, Álvaro de Campos and Alberto Caeiro ‒ his famous heteronyms. This edition includes 40 poems selected from his orthonymous poetry, published during his lifetime in various newspapers and magazines or for the first time in the referential edition by Editorial Ática (Lisbon, 1942).
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: July 2024
