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Fernando Pessoa

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Also known as Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa, Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa, Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, Bernardo Soares

Portuguese poet, writer, and philosopher (1888–1935); creator of the heteronymic system including Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, Álvaro de Campos, and Bernardo Soares

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Fernando Pessoa was a male writer and poet from Portugal, active from 1904 until 1935. He is associated with the genres of poetry and Portuguese literature. His notable works include *Apologia do paganismo*, *Exórdio em prol da filantropia & da educação física*, *Mensagem*, *Quadras ao gosto popular*, and *L'ami du chevalier de Pas*. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, and Bernardo Soares.

Pessoa’s writings explore themes such as the nature of the universe and individual identity. His quotes include the statement that "the essence of the universe is contradiction" and the reflection that "discovering that reading is a servile form of dreaming." He noted that "every man who deserves to be famous knows that it is not worth being so." He died on 30 November 1935.

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Person · Open Library

Born
13 June 1888
Died
30 November 1935
Works
655

Top works

  • Apologia do paganismo
  • Exórdio em prol da filantropia & da educação física
  • Mensagem
  • Quadras ao gosto popular
  • L'ami du chevalier de Pas

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Portugal
Active from
1888-06-13
Active to
1935-11-30
poetryportugalportuguesewriter
Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,126
Total plays
23,953

Tags

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Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa, known mainly as Fernando Pessoa (Portuguese pronunciation: [fɨɾˈnɐ̃du pɨˈsoɐ]; b. June 13, 1888 in Lisbon, Portugal — d. November 30, 1935 in the same city at the Hospital of São Luís), was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic and translator, one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets of all time. The critic Harold Bloom has referred to him in the book The Western Canon as the most representative poet of the 20th century <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Fernando+Pessoa">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,860x

  2. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,776x

  3. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,955x

  4. Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine

    · 2020 · cited 14,070x

  5. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,995x

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Quotes

  • “Descobri que a leitura é uma forma servil de sonhar. Se tenho de sonhar, porque não sonhar os meus próprios sonhos?”
  • “A essência do universo é a contradição.”
  • “Todo o homem que merece ser célebre sabe que não vale a pena sê-lo.”
  • “Se, depois de eu morrer, quiserem escrever a minha biografia,Não há nada mais simples.Tem só duas datas—a da minha nascença e a da minha morte.Entre uma e outra coisa todos os dias são meus.”
  • “Ah, poder ser tu, sendo eu!Ter a tua alegre inconsciência,E a consciência disso!”
  • “Não tenho ambições nem desejosSer poeta não é uma ambição minhaÉ a minha maneira de estar sozinho.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa (/pɛˈsoʊə/; Portuguese: [fɨɾˈnɐ̃du pɨˈsoɐ]; 13 June 1888–30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, and publisher. He has been described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese literature. He also wrote in and translated from English and French.

Pessoa was a prolific writer both in his own name and approximately seventy-five other names, of which three stand out: Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, and Ricardo Reis. He did not define these as pseudonyms because he felt that this did not capture their true independent intellectual life and instead called them heteronyms, a term he invented. These imaginary figures sometimes held unpopular or extreme views.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fernando Pessoa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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