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35 Sonnets

Fernando Pessoa

Book Overview: 

While Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa is internationally now known mostly for his masterpiece The Book of Disquiet, he was also an outstanding poet. 35 of his sonnets are collected in this volume.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . . what to be Towards thy fate's material secrecy. [pg 003] V. How can I think, or edge my thoughts to action, When the miserly press of each day's need Aches to a narrowness of spilled distraction My soul appalled at the world's work's time-greed? How can I pause my thoughts upon the task My soul was born to think that it must do When every moment has a thought to ask To fit the immediate craving of its cue? The coin I'd heap for marrying my Muse And build our home i'th' greater Time-to-be Becomes dissolved by needs of each day's use And I feel beggared of infinity, Like a true-Christian sinner, each day flesh-driven By his own act to forfeit his wished heaven. . . . Read More

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Do you know the painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte, where a well-dressed young man stands in front of a mirror, but chillingly the mirror reflects the back of his head, not his face? That is the feeling one has when reading these poems. An unsettling feeling; a feeling of dista

كم هو عميق هذا الانسان وكم هو غير مفهوم احيانا ..
يا إلهي كم هو جارح للقلب حين اقرأ لهذا الرجل

غريبة هي كلمات فرناندو ، فأول مرة تقرأها تتعجب من ربطه لكلمات غير معقولة ، ولا تجد حتى اجابة لنوع الكتاب ، ولكن ماهي الا لحظات الا وتجد الكلمات تنير امام وجهك كالنجوم فتبدأ تقرأها واحدة بعد الاخرى ، الكتاب من الكتب المفضلة التي قرأتها هذه السنة ، وانا جازم ان هناك بعض الجمل التي لم افهمها وسأفهمها ا

هذا لم يكن كافيا!
هذا أول ما طرأ على بالي عندما أنهيت هذا الديوان. إنها رحلة عميقة فلسفية وجودية تغوص في نفس بيسوا وتطفو لقلبك أنت إلى درجة أن تنتهي من السوناتا مستفهما مرة، ومغمورا مرة، وحتى منتشيا مرات أخر.
الترجمة كانت جيدة إلى حد ما، التشكيل كان زائداً عن الحد مما تسبب بإرباكي بعض الشيء. بعض السطو

Thirty-five sonnets by one of Portugal’s best-known writers provide for a work that is concise in the extreme. When comparing this work by the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa with William Shakespeare’s better-known sonnets, the final score would be Shakespeare 154, Pessoa 35. Yet when it comes to

Thy words are torture to me, that scarce grieve thee--
That entire death shall null my entire thought;
And I feel torture, not that I believe thee,
But that I cannot disbelieve thee not.
Shall that of me that now contains the stars
Be by the very contained stars survived?
Thus were Fate all unjust. Y

I'd never read any Pessoa before and I plan on reading The Book of Disquiet, but I wanted to get a feel of his style and this was short and lovely. He's quite painful to read because he's confused and nauseous right before your eyes, and it's blurry and full of headache, loss and self hatred. The su

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