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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 · 102,461 ratings · 10,329 reviews · 1,240 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Book of Disquiet 4.40 avg rating — 36,913 ratings — published 1982 — 28 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 — 9,581 ratings — published 1934 — 72 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 — 9,777 ratings — published 1922 — 224 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 — 4,398 ratings — published 1930 — 73 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 — 3,145 ratings — published 1935 — 55 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 — 2,993 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 — 2,358 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 — 1,858 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 — 1,453 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 — 1,399 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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“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

tags: literature, reading, solitude

4202 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

2813 likes

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

tags: failure, past, self, time

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A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin, 183 pages, 1968

65 votes, 18.3%

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, 181 pages, 1945

41 votes, 11.5%

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, 439 pages, 1946

34 votes, 9.6%

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller, 240 pages, 1902

33 votes, 9.3%

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, 233 pages, 1932

27 votes, 7.6%

Blindness by José Saramago, 326 pages, 1995

26 votes, 7.3%

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, 554 pages, 1982

21 votes, 5.9%

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, 232 pages, 1938

21 votes, 5.9%

Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald, 225 pages, 1932

21 votes, 5.9%

Native Son by Richard Wright, 504 pages, 1940

17 votes, 4.8%

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain, 688 pages, 1933

11 votes, 3.1%

The Ambassadors by Henry James, 528 pages, 1903

10 votes, 2.8%

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien, 239 pages, 1939

10 votes, 2.8%

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson, 176 pages, 1987

9 votes, 2.5%

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, 345 pages, 1974

4 votes, 1.1%

Explosion in a Cathedral by Alejo Carpentier, 360 pages, 1962

3 votes, 0.8%

Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe, 644 pages, 1929

2 votes, 0.6%

355 total votes

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