Fernando Pessoa's essential works
The top 3 according to 32 votes from people: Message · The Book of Disquiet · Lisbon Revisited. (Updated Apr 26, 2019.)
Mensagem, The Book of Disquiet and the poems of the heteronyms: what to read by Pessoa, according to reading guides and essential-book lists.
Automatically translated (original in Português). See the original
Top 14
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Message
1934. The only Portuguese book published in his lifetime: 44 poems about Portugal.
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The Book of Disquiet
Bernardo Soares. His prose masterpiece, only published in 1982.
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Lisbon Revisited
Álvaro de Campos, 1923. A bitter return to the city.
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The Tobacco Shop
Álvaro de Campos, 1928. The heteronym's most famous poem.
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Odes of Ricardo Reis
The classical heteronym, between Horace and Stoicism.
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The Mariner
1915. A "static drama" with three watchers.
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The Anarchist Banker
1922. A dialogue-story full of irony.
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35 Sonnets
1918. Sonnets written in English.
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Poem in a Straight Line
Álvaro de Campos. Against those who never fail at anything.
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Autopsychography
1932. The poem of the poet as pretender.
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The Shepherd in Love
Alberto Caeiro. The master's love poems.
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Maritime Ode
Álvaro de Campos, 1915. The quay, the ships and the vertigo.
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The Keeper of Sheep
Alberto Caeiro. The master of the heteronyms and his poetry of nature.
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Triumphal Ode
Álvaro de Campos, 1915. Machines and futurism, in the magazine Orpheu.
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