35 Sonnets - Fernando Pessoa

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Résumé :
Book ExcerptBook Excerpt: ...That saw the Possible like a dawn grow paleOn the lost night before it, mute and vast.It dates remoter than God's birth can reach, That had no birth but the world's coming after.So the world's to me as, after whispered speech, The cause-ignored sudden echoing of laughter.That 't has a meaning my conjecture knows, But that 't has meaning's all its meaning shows.XXV.We are in Fate and Fate's and do but lackOutness from soul to know ourselves its dwelling, And do but compel Fate aside or backBy Fate's own immanence in the compelling.We are too far in us from outward truthTo know how much we are not what we are, And live but in the heat of error's youth, Yet young enough its acting youth to ignore.The doubleness of mind fails us, to glanceAt our exterior presence amid things, Sizing from otherness our countenanceAnd seeing our puppet will's act-acting strings.An unknown language speaks in...

Biographie:
Fernando Pessoa is one of the great poets of the 20th Century, and is still something of a mystery to readers outside Portugal and Brazil, where his work has been elevated to classic status. Most puzzling for his readers, perhaps, is the fact that Pessoa wrote under a series of of other names (heteronyms, as he called them) and confusingly also under the 'orthonym' Fernando Pessoa, who is not the same person as the man born with that name. The major poetic heteronyms are Caeiro, Campos and Ricardo Reis, but Pessoa had a whole range of others: journalists, prose-writers, essayists, as well as two English poets in the form of Charles Robert Anon and Alexander Search, heteronyms used by Pessoa before the break-through year of 1914, when Reis, Caeiro and Campos all came into existence. Little of his work was published in book form during his lifetime: two slim volumes of English verse and the mature collection Mensagem (Message), but he left a trunk full of manuscripts and fragments (some 25,000 all told) and these have been mined by scholars ever since....

Sommaire:
Publicada apenas um ano antes da morte do autor, a obra trata do glorioso passado de Portugal de forma apolog?tica e tenta encontrar um sentido para a antiga grandeza e a decad?ncia existente na ?poca em que o livro foi escrito. Glorifica acima de tudo o estilo camoniano e o valor simb?lico dos her?is do passado, como os Descobrimentos portugueses. ? apontando as virtudes portuguesas que Fernando Pessoa acredita que o pa?s deva se regenerar, ou seja, tornar-se grande como foi no passado atrav?s da valoriza??o cultural da na??o....