The selected prose of Fernando Pessoa /

"Though known primarily as a poet, Fernando Pessoa wrote prose widely, in several languages and in every genre - the novel, short stories, letters, and essays. Drawing from the huge body of work that Pessoa left behind, The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa is further testimony from a writer wh...

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Main Author: Pessoa, Fernando, 1888-1935
Other Authors: Zenith, Richard
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Portuguese
Published: New York : Grove Press, ©2001.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • E = original of Pessoa in English
  • F = original of Pessoa in French
  • Aspects
  • The Artist as a Young Man and Heteronym. I was a poet animated by philosophy ... E. The artist must be born beautiful ... E. I have always had in consideration ... E. Ten thousand times my heart broke ... E. I saw the little children ... E. I, Charles Robert Anon ... E. I am tired of confiding in myself: An Unsent Letter to Clifford Geerdts ... E. (Faustino Antunes) E. Bond entered into by Alexander Search ... E. No soul more loving or tender ... E. Rule of Life E
  • The Mariner. The Mariner - A Static Drama in One Act. To Fernando Pessoa (Alvaro de Campos)
  • The Master and his Disciples. Notes for the Memory of My Master Caeiro (Alvaro de Campos). from Translator's Preface to the Poems of Alberto Caeiro (Thomas Crosse) E. On Alvaro de Campos (I. I. Crosse) E. On the Work of Ricardo Reis (Frederico Reis)
  • Sensationism and other ISMS.
  • Preface to an Anthology of the Portuguese Sensationists (Thomas Crosse) E. All sensations are good ... Intersectionist Manifesto. Sensationism
  • Ultimatum (Alvaro de Campos). Translator's Preface to Ultimatum (Thomas Crosse?) E. Ultimatum. from "What Is Metaphysics?" (Alvaro de Campos)
  • Letter to Mario De Sa-Carneiro
  • Riddle of the Stars. Letter to His Aunt Anica. 30 Astral Communications (Henry More, Wardour, Voodooist, etc.) E. from Essay on Initiation E. Treatise on Negation (Raphael Baldaya)
  • Letter to Two French Magnetists F
  • Selected Letters to Ophelia Queiroz. Phase 1: Pessoa in Love? (March-November 1920). Phase 2: Pessoa Insane? (September-October 1929)
  • Neopaganism. Without yet going into the metaphysical foundations ... Humanitarianism is the last bulwark ... Only now can we fully understand ... We are not really neopagans ... The work of Caeiro represents the total reconstruction ... When I once had occasion ...
  • Alberto Caeiro is more pagan than paganism ... For modern pagans, as exiles ...
  • Portugal and the Fifth Empire. 1. Any Empire not founded on the Spiritual Empire ... 2. The Fifth Empire. The future of Portugal ... 3. The promise of the Fifth Empire ... 4. Only one kind of propaganda can raise the morale ... 5. What, basically, is Sebastianism? 6. To justify its present-day ambition ... 7. An imperialism of grammarians? 8. A foggy morning
  • The Anarchist Banker
  • Pessoa on Millionaires. from An Essay on Millionaires and Their Ways E. from American Millionaires E
  • Environment (Alvaro De Campos)
  • Self-Definition
  • Erostratus: The Search for Immortality. from Erostratus E
  • On the Literary Art and its Artists. The Task on Modern Poetry E. Shakespeare E. On Blank Verse and Paradise Lost E. from Charles Dickens - Packwick Papers E. from Concerning Oscar Wilde E. The Art of James Joyce. The Art of Translation E
  • From Essay on Poetry (Professor Jones) E
  • From France in 1950 (Jean Seul de Meluret) F
  • Random Notes and Epigrams
  • Two Letters to Joao Gaspar Simoes. Letter of 11 December 1931. Letter of 28 July 1932
  • Three Letters to Adolfo Casais Monteiro. Letter of 11 January 1930. Letter of 13 January 1935. Another Version of the Genesis of the Heteronyms. Letter of 20 January 1935
  • The Book of Disquiet (Bernardo Soares). from The Book of Disquiet
  • From the Education of the Stoic (Baron of Teive)
  • From the Preface to Fictions of the Interlude. Letter from a Hunchback Girl to a Metalworker (Maria Jose).