# Fernando Pessoa's essential works

Mensagem, The Book of Disquiet and the poems of the heteronyms: what to read by Pessoa, according to reading guides and essential-book lists.

- 32 votes · 14 items
- Apr 26, 2019 · leitora.curioso
- https://even.best/en/l/3098/fernando-pessoa-s-essential-works

## Top 14

1. **Message** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1934. The only Portuguese book published in his lifetime: 44 poems about Portugal.
2. **The Book of Disquiet** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Bernardo Soares. His prose masterpiece, only published in 1982.
3. **Lisbon Revisited** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Álvaro de Campos, 1923. A bitter return to the city.
4. **The Tobacco Shop** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Álvaro de Campos, 1928. The heteronym's most famous poem.
5. **Odes of Ricardo Reis** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The classical heteronym, between Horace and Stoicism.
6. **The Mariner** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1915. A "static drama" with three watchers.
7. **The Anarchist Banker** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1922. A dialogue-story full of irony.
8. **35 Sonnets** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1918. Sonnets written in English.
9. **Poem in a Straight Line** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Álvaro de Campos. Against those who never fail at anything.
10. **Autopsychography** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1932. The poem of the poet as pretender.
11. **The Shepherd in Love** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Alberto Caeiro. The master's love poems.
12. **Maritime Ode** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Álvaro de Campos, 1915. The quay, the ships and the vertigo.
13. **The Keeper of Sheep** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — Alberto Caeiro. The master of the heteronyms and his poetry of nature.
14. **Triumphal Ode** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — Álvaro de Campos, 1915. Machines and futurism, in the magazine Orpheu.

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