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Book Title: Mensagem
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The author of the book: Fernando Pessoa
Edition: L&pm
Date of issue: 2006
ISBN: 9896600856
ISBN 13: 9789896600853
Language: English
Format files: PDF
The size of the: 646 KB
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Mensagem é o único livro de poemas de Fernando Pessoa publicado em português durante a sua vida. É também "realmente um só poema", como escreveu, dada a unidade perfeita conseguida pelo seu canto das grandezas passadas da nação - que se reflectem no futuro, potenciadas pelo Quinto Império.

Sem a simetria de composição nem a vastidão narrativa da epopeia clássica, é a obra minimal de um Supra-Camões concentrado na construção de um mito, o de D. Sebastião, entendido como a síntese da ousadia dos heróis anteriores e como a promessa de um "dia claro" por vir.

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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 had different religious and political views, different aesthetic sensibilities, different social temperaments. And each produced a large body of poetry. Álvaro de Campos and Ricardo Reis also signed dozens of pages of prose.

The critic Harold Bloom referred to him in the book The Western Canon as the most representative poet of the twentieth century, along with Pablo Neruda.