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Fernando Pessoa

Born

in Lisbon, Portugal

June 13, 1888

Died

November 30, 1935

Website

http://casafernandopessoa.cm-lisboa.pt/index.ph...

Genre

Poetry, Fiction, Philosophy

Influences

Luís Vaz de Camões, Camilo Pessanha, Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Cesário Ver ...more

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Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa was a poet and writer.

It is sometimes said that the four greatest Portuguese poets of modern times are Fernando Pessoa. The statement is possible since Pessoa, whose name means ‘person’ in Portuguese, had three alter egos who wrote in styles completely different from his own. In fact Pessoa wrote under dozens of names, but Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos were – their creator claimed – full-fledged individuals who wrote things that he himself would never or could never write. He dubbed them ‘heteronyms’ rather than pseudonyms, since they were not false names but “other names”, belonging to distinct literary personalities. Not only were their styles different; they thought differently, they h ...more

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Fernando Pessoa’s books

Average rating: 4.2 · 73,331 ratings · 7,041 reviews · 1,091 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Book of Disquiet 4.42 avg rating — 27,764 ratings — published 1982 — 321 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El banquero anarquista 3.79 avg rating — 7,099 ratings — published 1922 — 196 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro by Fernando Pessoa, Alberto Caeiro (heteronym) 4.41 avg rating — 2,613 ratings — published 1935 — 104 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poemas de Álvaro de Campos by Fernando Pessoa, Álvaro de Campos (heteronym) 4.56 avg rating — 2,075 ratings — published 1930 — 87 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (Translator) 4.40 avg rating — 1,518 ratings — published 2006 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Have More Souls Than One 3.96 avg rating — 1,562 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (Translator) 4.31 avg rating — 1,297 ratings — published 1971 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La hora del Diablo by Fernando Pessoa, Teresa Rita Lopes (Editor, Foreword), Rosa S. Corgatelli (Translator) 4.03 avg rating — 1,109 ratings — published 1989 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	لست ذا شأن by Fernando Pessoa, اسكندر حبش 3.36 avg rating — 1,028 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Odes by Fernando Pessoa (Author), Ricardo Reis (heteronym) 4.24 avg rating — 800 ratings — published 1933 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Orpheu (3 books)
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Quotes by Fernando Pessoa (?)

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

tags: literature, reading, solitude

3943 likes

“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
― Fernando Pessoa

tags: hope, longing, pain, regret, yearning

2595 likes

“My past is everything I failed to be.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

tags: failure, past, self, time

1348 likes

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