Tabacaria
I forgot to mention this wonderful Christmas present i got from my sister. It’s an illustrated version of Álvaro de Campos’ famous “Tabacaria” (a long and profound poem which i love), translated into Spanish, English, French and Italian. It’s a great piece of art, and the translations look very accurate, to my simple eyes.”Tabacaria” is also the name of one of my other blogs, this one in portuguese:
It is a short story, still in progress, about the tragedy of life.
More info on Fernando Pessoa, and his alter ego Álvaro de Campos:
“I love you all, everything, just like a beast.
I love you carnivorously,
Pervertedly and twisting my gaze
On you, o things great, banal, useful and useless,
o things modern through
O my contemporary things, current and future form
Of the immediate system of the Universe!
The new metallic and dynamic Revelation of God!”
Álvaro de Campos, “Ode Triunfal” (translated)