The fragmentary kinetics of writing in the book of disquiet jstor. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa is one such modern masterpiece that i read last week. Fernando pessoa books list of books by author fernando pessoa. Fernando pessoa descreve o livro do desassossego, como sendo uma autobiografia faltando fatos. E fernando pessoa quem aponta bernardo soares como semiheteronimo. Also included is a generous selection from pessoa s masterpiece, the book of disquiet, freshly translated by richard zenith from newly discovered materials. Fernando pessoa quotes author of the book of disquiet. The transformation book provides significant insight. The selected prose of fernando pessoa fernando pessoa. Fernando pessoa, il libro dellinquietudine di bernardo soares fernando pessoa, 1914 fernando antonio nogueira pessoa afi. 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.
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. 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. 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. Bernardo soares e um tipo particular dentre os heteronimos do poeta e escritor fernando pessoa. Fernando pessoa 18881935 author of the book of disquiet. Suivez fernando pessoa et explorez sa bibliographie sur sa page dauteur fernando pessoa sur.
Also included is a generous selection from pessoas masterpiece, the book of disquiet, freshly translated by richard zenith from newly discovered materials. The main characters of this poetry, fiction story are bernardo soares. Some portraits and other fictions, in pessoa plural a journal of fernando pessoa studies, n 2, fall, pp. The book of disquiet is the portuguese modernist master fernando pessoas greatest. Mythologising the exiled self in james joyce and fernando. Lisbon has a certain number of eating establishments in which, on top of. For its entire four hundred plus pages it offers a philosophy of a melancholic life, a philosophy of dreaming, and a philosophy of art. Published posthumously, the book of disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a factless autobiography.
Take the serpents tail edition of fernando pessoas the book of disquiet. 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. Jun 02, 2001 the book of disquiet fernando pessoa, trans. 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.
The book was published in multiple languages including italian, consists of 286 pages and is available in paperback format. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the us or from the uk, depending on stock availability. Zeniths selection is beautifully translated, compact while appropriately diverse. Capitulo xi disponibilizado na revista nave da palavra, edicao n. 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 1982 is a novel by portuguese author fernando pessoa, published posthumously, using the heteronym bernardo soares. In bernardo soares s case, designed as the author of the book of disquiet, the identity does. For fernando pessoa the book functions as a generative and ideal con. Fernando pessoa, one of the greatest portuguese poets, whose modernist work gave portuguese literature european significance.
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. Fernando pessoa bertrand livreiros livraria online. Fernando pessoa drinking a glass of wine in a lisbon tavern in 1929. 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. Nov 30, 2006 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg.
Join facebook to connect with bernardino soares and others you may know. Apicapic in the book of disquiet, bernardo soares, an assistant bookkeeper in a lisbon fabrics firm, records impressions he doesnt expect to see. Pessoa, fernando article about pessoa, fernando by the. By bernardo soares, assistant bookkeeper in the city of lisbon. The selected prose of fernando pessoa is an important record of a crucial part of the literary canon. See more ideas about fernando pessoa, words and quotes. Pdf il libro dellinquietudine di bernardo soares book by. The first edition of the novel was published in 1982, and was written by fernando pessoa. In the book of disquiet, bernardo soares, an assistant bookkeeper in a lisbon fabrics firm, records impressions he doesnt expect to see published. He moved to durban, south africa, as a child, becoming bilingual portuguese, english. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Fernando pessoa became bernardo soares, channeling each scrap of paper making up the book of disquiet through his alter ego.
The book of disquiet is one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. 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. O livro fornece poucos fatos concretos sobre o escritor ou o mundo dele. The book is an aggregation of disparate diary entries that are abstract, dense, and at times, eccentric. 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. Pessoa, fernando article about pessoa, fernando by the free. Mythologising the exiled self in james joyce and fernando pessoa.
It was to bernardo soares that pessoa ascribed his book of disquiet, first made available in english in a briefer version by richard zenith in 1991. 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. The book of disquiet fernando pessoa translator richard. Fernando pessoa, recognized as the greatest poet of the portuguese language was born on th of june 1888 in lisbon, portugal.
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. Nunca pretendi ser senao um sonhador bernardo soares. In the book of disquiet, bernardo soares, an assistant bookkeeper in a lisbon fabrics firm, records impressions he doesnt expect to see. 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. 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. Written over the course of fernando pessoas life, it was first published in 1982, pieced together from the thousands of individual manuscript. Preface of fernando pessoa to the book of disquiet.
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