A month before he died and even though his health is increasingly resented Fernando Pessoa was determined to maintain their usual lifestyle, writes his biographer Ángel Crespo.
During the day spent long hours at the business offices for working, dispatched letters, walked and ate at some place of your choice and, in the afternoon, I used to go to pubs and cafes.
"For night, "writes Crespo," was locked at home and drinking, perhaps in search of that 'amazing lucidity' that occurs sometimes do too much. There in the center of its isolation, was to follow by reviewing his life, remembering and, above all, and it poems attest-then, lamenting his shortcomings and failures, but consoling himself with the reality of a work I knew imperishable. "
And there will be written in one night his last poem of love:
Perhaps another time / O round / I love, and only one day / one kiss is all the love / Blonde mine. / All I care about these heavens / The World / For the skies are blue / And they dream about your beautiful eyes / Blonde mine ...
son of a music critic, Pessoa was born in Lisbon on June 13, 1888 on the fourth floor of the Paseo de San Carlos, at three in the afternoon, and died undermined by alcohol on November 30, 1935, in Hospital de San Luis, by liver failure.
This was Pessoa, the great poet of the century, 20 of whom much has been written. Although he published a book under his real name, message, since dedicated his life to spreading the work of his dozens of pseudonyms heteronyms-no, but people with different self-mood-writing mode, there are many developments on this Portuguese introduced the forefront their country and that, rather than a literary world, left a galaxy.
This is his legacy: the legendary trunk before he died which left ordered 29 books, 426 original 25 000 18 000 spread over 816 manuscripts, typescripts 3 000 948, 2 000 662 Original mixed and distributed in 343 envelopes.
The mere mention of his estate is reminiscent of Kafka: both left unpublished work that was published posthumously.
Pessoa can talk through three of their "other": Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos.
Regarding the former, the critical Shoot Angel Campos, who did the foreword and notes Poems Complete Alberto Caeiro, states that the work of the author of The Keeper of Herds marks the line behind all the work by Pessoa.
Caeiro (1889-1915), known as the "master" for all "group" was born as the poet of spontaneity, of candor and instinct. His voice, viscerally experiential, built from the feedback received from their permanent contact with nature, has the indomitable power of authenticity, the telluric energy of the voice of the earth.
Thinking about God is to disobey God, / For God did not want what we knew, / why not showed us. / / Let's be simple and serene, / as the streams and trees, / and God We love making / beautiful as the trees and the streams, / and give us your spring flowers, / and a river where to go when we finish [IV, The Keeper of Herds]
Shoot, also in charge of Odes of Ricardo Reis Pessoa writes that the author was born in Porto in 1897 and survived its creator.
Educated by the Jesuits, he practiced medicine in Brazil, where he was exiled as a monarchy. Reis is the classic ("Latinos and foreign education for their own education semihelenista"), classic in his poetry and his philosophy and also the least popular of the heteronymous Pessoa. Their language is the training of a poet Literary near Horace.
not want, Lydia, built in the space / that future figures, or promise / tomorrow. Cúmplete not expecting today. / You are your life. / Do not destinations, you're not the future. / Who knows, between the empty cup, / And fill it again, luck you / brought the abyss? [XVII, Book I of The Odes] *
Within the "drama in people" Pessoa, wrote the researcher Adolfo Montejo Navas, author of the introduction and notes to the poems of Alvaro de Campos, the mask given to this author takes on moments such resemblance to his creator that nothing more opportune time to make a brief portrait heteronym that shape the identity of this proximity.
"Before entering other aspects of order should note some similarities 'existential', as in the case of death as 'co brothers' together, a November 30, 1935, get to appear on the work of de Campos Travel details that only the biography of the poet himself could feed, or interfere in the love affair with Ofélia Pessoa de Queiroz, as the letters testify to the latter. "
In this regard, and this closeness, Antonio Tabucchi discover an interesting question, Montejo points: the assumption that De Campos had been reached heteronymic threaten the entire game. De Campos "could reclaim his face, his body, wanting to replace their own: this is the curse which feels threatened Pessoa.
"The most hysterically hysterical to me," wrote the poet about the creation of multiple fields, the most prolific and avant-garde of all, which gave the definition of being as "Walt Whitman with a Greek poet in there."
feel everything in every way, / live all on all sides, / be the same thing in every way possible at the same time, or to make myself all mankind for all time / In a single moment diffuse, heavy, full and away. / I want to be always that I sympathize with him, / and sooner or later whenever I become / in that with which I sympathize, be it a stone or a craving, / is a flower or an abstract idea, / is a crowd or a way to understand God . [I, El Paso of the Hours (fragment)]
* Pessoa
introspection makes art that others have failed to achieve. Such is his carefully considered themselves to their practices may well resemble those of an explorer of cliffs and high peaks, serene lakes and swift currents.
And yet remain enigmas in his vast work, described by critic Christopher Domínguez Michael "black box of a god." Hence, in his bibliography predominates The Book of Disquiet, ledger on human existence.
Crespo concludes his biography on the end of Portuguese-abyss: "The final crisis began in the early hours of 26 to 27 November in bed. When he got up he felt better, but the 28th, and being in his friend Teixeira Rebelo, worsened again and decided to call the doctor (...).
"On 29, Fernando asked for paper and pencil and wrote this note, which is still preserved:" I know tomorrow will bring Not What '(do not know what tomorrow will bring.)
"30 days ago, the attack liver cirrhosis suffering the poet seemed to be dominated, but it was one of those fake improvements announcing the imminence of death. It was about 8 when Pessoa suddenly lost the vision and, having muttered, perhaps without knowing who was going, an anguished 'give me the glasses', his life ended in extinction.
The remains of Pessoa, poet fundamental in literature and whose death certificate says "writer", were taken in the 50 years after his death to a tomb and raised in the cloister, listed next to their names Caeiro, Reis and De Campos.
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