"Imagining a Rose of the Future" by Fernando Pessoa Publisher: CITIC Publishing Group

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A tired life cannot be without poetry

My heart is slightly bigger than the universe

Pessoa, a Portuguese national treasure writer and poet

A scroll of poems written under the pseudonym "Gampos"

Recommended by poets Chen Li, Huang Canran, Lan Lan, and Wang Ao

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【Content Introduction】

Fernando Pessoa is the greatest Portuguese poet of the 20th century, who created a unique literary world with more than a hundred pseudonyms.

Among these pseudonyms, "Campos" may be closest to the truth about Pessoa himself: his flamboyant spiritual world is just a dream he wove with poetry and words; in real life, he is an ordinary clerk who can never even pack his suitcase when he goes out.

This book mainly includes short poems by Campos, as well as famous long poems such as "The Tobacco Shop" and "The Opium Smoker". This is the first Chinese translation of Campos, and I hope it can present a clearer image of Campos to Chinese readers and provide an entrance to appreciate Pessoa's vast writing world. This book also includes "Recollections of My Mentor Caeiro" and "The Anarchist Banker".

【Editor's recommendation】

Pessoa single-handedly created a rich and complex parallel literary world system. He is a cosmologist among poets and a prophet among writers, and readers in the 21st century can understand him better.

【Celebrity Reviews】

All of Pessoa's work is a search for a lost identity.

—— Nobel Prize winner in Literature

Pessoa is Whitman reincarnated, but he is the Whitman who renamed "self", "true self" and "my soul", and he wrote beautiful poems about all three.

-- Harold Bloom, famous literary critic