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Álvaro de Campos

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A heteronym of Fernando Pessoa.

Álvaro de Campos was born in Tavira on October 15th 1890 at 1.30 pm.
He had a normal high school education; and was later sent to Scotland to study Engineering, first mechanical, then naval. A holiday trip to the East resulted in the Opiário. An uncle from the Beiras region of Portugal, who was a priest, taught him Latin.
Vaguely Jewish-Portuguese, pale olive skin, straight hair, usually side parted, wore a monocle.

In his letter, source for this text, to Adolfo Casais Monteiro, dated Janeiro 13th 1935, Fernando Pessoa writes on the birth of heteronomy as Campos, "when I felt a sudden impulse to write and didn’t know what of", he then adds "suddenly and moving in opposite direction to Ricardo Reis, a different ch ...more

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Average rating: 4.49 · 3,603 ratings · 233 reviews · 64 distinct works • Similar authors

	Tabacaria by Álvaro de Campos, Pedro Sousa Pereira (Illustrator), Richard Zenith (Translator, Afterword) 4.66 avg rating — 308 ratings — published 1928 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Antologia Poética - Poemas Escolhidos 4.44 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poemas Completos de Álvaro de Campos 4.29 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ode Triunfal - Ilustrado by Álvaro de Campos, Pedro Sousa Pereira (Illustrator), Richard Zenith (Translator and Afterword) 4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vida e Obras do Engenheiro by Álvaro de Campos, Álvaro de Campos (heterónimo) 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saudação a Walt Whitman/Canto de Mim Mesmo by Álvaro de Campos, Walt Whitman 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ode Marítima 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Obra completa by Álvaro de Campos, Fernando Pessoa, Eloísa Álvarez (Translator) 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ultimatum by Álvaro de Campos (Pseudonym), Fernando Pessoa, Michel Chandeigne (Translator) 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1917 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Opiário / Ode Triunfal / Ode Marítima 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It’s stupid, but it’s human, and that’s how it is.”
― Álvaro de Campos

tags: clarity, existened, human, humanity, it-is-what-it-is, life, meaning, paganism, pantheism, reality, simplicity

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“I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected promptitude. “A shadow is real, but it’s less real than a rock. A dream is real — if it weren’t, it wouldn’t be a dream — but less real than a thing. That’s what being real is like.”
― Álvaro de Campos

tags: alberto-caeiro, dream, existence, fernando-pessoa, it-is-what-it-is, more-or-less, nature, paganism, pantheism, philosophy, reality, seeing, shadow, truth

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“Arre, que tanta besta é muito pouca gente!
Arre, que o Portugal que se vê é só isto!
Deixem ver o Portugal que não deixam ver!”
― Álvaro de Campos

tags: portugal

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