Mensagem
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Mensagem is a book by Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa. It is composed of 44 poems, and was called the "livro pequeno de poemas" or the "little book of poems". It was published in 1934 by Parceria António Maria Pereira. The book was awarded, in the same year, with the Prémio Antero de Quental in the poem category by the Secretariado Nacional de Informação of the Estado Novo.
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- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Fernando Pessoa
- Country of origin
- Portugal
- Image
- Mensagem 1934.jpg
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- publication date
- 1934-00-00
- place of publication
- Lisbon
- language of work or name
- European Portuguese
- Commons category
- Mensagem by Fernando Pessoa
- form of creative work
- poetry collection
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Mensagem is a book by Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa. It is composed of 44 poems, and was called the "livro pequeno de poemas" or the "little book of poems". It was published in 1934 by Parceria António Maria Pereira. The book was awarded, in the same year, with the Prémio Antero de Quental in the poem category by the Secretariado Nacional de Informação of the Estado Novo.
Mensagem was published just one year before the death of the author, and is about the past of Portugal. In particular it contemplates the ancient grandeur of Portugal, and glorifies above all the style of Luís de Camões, the author of Os Lusíadas, and the Portuguese discoveries. It points to these people and events as ones which Pessoa believed could regenerate, or return Portugal to its past greatness.
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