Lisboa Revisitada | Lisbon Revisited

by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (Translator), Pedro Sousa Pereira (Illustrator)

Lisboa Revisitada reúne poemas sublimes que nos convidam a ver Lisboa pelos olhos do maior poeta moderno português.

Nele encontramos sete poemas de Álvaro de Campos que têm a cidade como fundo e fonte de inspiração, a que se juntam as fabulosas ilustrações de Pedro Sousa Pereira.

Com posfácio de Richard Zenith, o novo livro desta coleção representa a vida humana na sua realidade crua, servindo de contrapeso, ou contraponto, ao universo de especulação teórica e metafísica que ocupou grande parte da vida mental do autor. (…) A vida corriqueira de Lisboa é o que tantas vezes salva Álvaro de Campos (ou Fernando Pessoa) de si mesmo, conforme escreve.

104 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2018

About the author

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 had different religious and political views, different aesthetic sensibilities, different social temperaments. And each produced a large body of poetry. Álvaro de Campos and Ricardo Reis also signed dozens of pages of prose.

The critic Harold Bloom referred to him in the book The Western Canon as the most representative poet of the twentieth century, along with Pablo Neruda.

Reviews

[telma · Rating 4 out of 5]

j'ai adoré voilà tout

[Dina Rahajaharison · Rating 5 out of 5]

" Je me contente finalement de très peu : la fin de la pluie, un beau soleil dans ce Sud heureux, voir des bananes d'autant plus jaunes qu'elles sont tachetées de noir, le parler des gens qui les vendent, les trottoirs de la rue da Prata, le Tage au fond, bleu verdissant jusqu'à l'or, tout ce recoin familier du système de l'Univers."

[Samantha Olson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book! Reading it in Portuguese and then translated to English was so cool...definitely gave me saudades de Portugal!!! Love Pessoa.

[Luca · Rating 3 out of 5]

Usually not much of a poetry reader but I enjoyed it a lot! Fernando is such an interesting person