The Reading Warehouse

Fernando Pessoa es considerado, junto con Luis de Cam es, el poeta m s importante en lengua portuguesa y uno de los m s reconocidos de la literatura universal. lvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis y Alberto Caeiro son algunos de sus heter nimos, verdaderas personalidades po ticas con estilo propio, personajes completos, con biograf as propias y estilos literarios dispares. Se convirtieron as en m scaras del propio escritor, en las que se despersonaliz para dar forma, a trav s de sus m ltiples voces, a la amplitud y complejidad de sus pensamientos, conocimientos, y percepciones de la vida y el mundo.

In How Sweet to Live Alone, the "Portable Poetry" collection gathers a sample of Fernando Pessoa's most innovative poems, characterized by vanguardism and multiple identities.

Along with Luis de Cam es, Fernando Pessoa is considered the most important poet in the Portuguese language and one of the most renowned in world literature. lvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, and Alberto Caeiro are some of his heteronyms, true poetic personalities: complete characters with their own biographies and disparate literary styles. They thus became masks of the author himself, in which he could depersonalize through his multiple voices to give shape to the breadth and complexity of his thoughts, knowledge, and perceptions of life and death.

"The poet is a pretender. He pretends so completely,
that he even pretends it's pain,
the pain he really feels."