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A genius of world literature?

>> No.10182703

>>10182699
Yes.

>> No.10182755

He is one of the greatest all-time literary genius. Too bad he is not more well-known.

>> No.10182807

what are the top three pessoa books

>> No.10182814

>>10182807
His diaries

>> No.10182824

Camoes still better, but impossible to translate.

>> No.10182871

>>10182807
The Book of Disquiet, The Anarchist Banker and any of his poems.

>> No.10182876

>>10182824
Camões is a god of the Portuguese language, whereas Pessoa is a god of world lit

>> No.10184105

>>10182876
Camões turned maps and history into music like Dante did with philosophy, astronomy and theology.

Pessoa is clearly below him.

>> No.10184133

>>10182699
What are some other geniuses of literature?

>> No.10184176
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10184176

>>10182814
desu

>> No.10184828

>>10182699
yes

also fighting between who is better, Camões or Pessoa is such a inane way to deal with literature, they both have totally different styles and purposes, stop being faggets

>> No.10185095
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10185095

>>10182699
>go to lisbon
>visit Pessoa's house
>one room has been reconstructed to look exactly like his bedroom when he was alive, with his original furniture
>see chest of drawers where he wrote some of his best poems on
>i'm completely alone
>take dick out and rub it on the chest of drawers

feels pretty good to have such an intimate connection with my friend Fernando

>> No.10185104

>>10182699
Which one is his best alias?
I always go with Alvaro de Campos

>> No.10185114

>>10182807
Complete Poems of Alberto Caeiro, the Message and whatever he wrote as Alvaro Campos.

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10185122

>>10184105
>Alchemy
People who think that the best thing you can do with writing is turn it into something that isn't writing are always wrong

>> No.10185194

Is his stuff worth reading in English? I can speak Portuguese but my reading is terrible and it would take forever for me to read it and I might not even understand everything if I read him in Portuguese. If it's leagues ahead of the English translation, however, I would go for it.

>> No.10185492

>>10185095
enough internet for the month

>> No.10185686

>>10185194
You can find all his stuff translated into English by Richard Zenit

>> No.10186229

>>10185194
Depends, actually. Caeiro stuff should translate pretty well.