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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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Average rating: 4.18 · 100,951 ratings · 10,092 reviews · 1,232 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Book of Disquiet 4.40 avg rating — 36,278 ratings — published 1982 — 357 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
	Mensagem - Poemas Esotéricos by Fernando Pessoa, Fernando 4.10 avg rating — 9,492 ratings — published 1934 — 158 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 3.76 avg rating — 9,599 ratings — published 1922 — 61 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
	Poems of Fernando Pessoa 4.47 avg rating — 4,360 ratings — published 1930 — 30 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) 4.42 avg rating — 3,130 ratings — published 1935 — 107 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 3.97 avg rating — 2,920 ratings — published 1918 — 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
	Poemas de Álvaro de Campos by Fernando Pessoa, Álvaro de Campos (heteronym) 4.53 avg rating — 2,345 ratings — published 1930 — 82 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) 4.39 avg rating — 1,842 ratings — published 2006 — 15 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) 4.29 avg rating — 1,447 ratings — published 1971 — 39 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 — 1,387 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

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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

4183 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

2798 likes

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

tags: failure, past, self, time

1468 likes

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December 2015 New School Classics Group Read

1908, Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, 320 pages

24 votes, 18.5%

1972, Watership Down by Richard Adams, 481 pages

17 votes, 13.1%

1969, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, 304 pages

15 votes, 11.5%

1920, This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 288 pages

13 votes, 10.0%

1966, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 360 pages

11 votes, 8.5%

1940, The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene, 222 pages

7 votes, 5.4%

1987, Beloved by Toni Morrison, 324 pages

6 votes, 4.6%

1963, The Collector by John Fowles, 283 pages

6 votes, 4.6%

1950, A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute, 359 pages

6 votes, 4.6%

1982, The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, 544 pages

5 votes, 3.8%

1974, Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, 144 pages

5 votes, 3.8%

1995, The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, 216 pages

4 votes, 3.1%

1935, BUtterfield 8 by John O'Hara, 256 pages

4 votes, 3.1%

1988, A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark, 192 pages

3 votes, 2.3%

1986, Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino, 288 pages

2 votes, 1.5%

1937, Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato, 256 pages

1 vote, 0.8%

1974, The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier, 267 pages

1 vote, 0.8%

130 total votes

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