Às vezes você olha pela janela é vê um vizinho, um amigo, um comerciante do sexo, um vendedor de sonhos ou sei lá o que... Quando damos os sexos bons para alguém demonstramos o tesão de um encontro ou a expectativa do início de um novo romance... O contato faz com que os corpos se toquem e por um momento dividam entre si a deliciosa sensação de entrelaço de pernas, de coxas, de corações e de pessoas... Naquele momento faz parte de nossa alcova: o desejo, o fetiche, o prazer, o delírio, o sonho, o orgasmo, a vontade, a imaginação, a criatividade, a liberação... O que falta dizer? Que sexar é muito bom, mas precisa de um complemento direto sem subterfúgios e subverter as coisas, os bichos, as plantas e as pessoas em qualquer hierarquia...
[...] Fogo, música, dança, alegria, sedução, paixão. Ser cigano é percorrer esta estrada sem se prender a nenhuma estação . Os ciganos não têm uma religião própria e especial, geralmente adotam a crença do país em que vivem fazendo somente os seus ritos externos. As crenças dos ciganos são caracterizadas por um sobressalto intuitivo, numa lógica toda particular. Eles crêem mais do que pensam. Em suas Slavas (comemorações religiosas) com muito fervor os ciganos comemoraram os Santos do Panteão Cristão. A mais famosa é de São Jorge no dia 23 de abril. Alguns ciganos procedentes da Espanha e Portugal cultuam “A Virgem Dolorossa de Macarena” (Santa Macarena), no mês de julho. No Brasil, em sua maioria, os ciganos cultuam Nossa Senhora Aparecida. E pelo mundo Santa Sarah Kali, apesar de ninguém saber explicar quem é por que a Santa é a padroeira dos ciganos, mas ao pesquisar sobre os mistérios da Santa, pude constatar que o povo cigano tem a crença de ter retirado seu corpo do mar. O mundo é dividido em dois princípios: o bem e o mal. O bem é definido por Deus, Devel ou Dheil (o grande avô do mundo, o deus primitivo de Ários, derivado do sânscrito Deva sinônimo de Deus), ajudado por várias divindades e espíritos. O mal age por um conjunto de bruxas, feiticeiras, demônios, vampiros, fantasmas e determinados animais liderados por Beng ou Benguel (Espírito do mal e do Catramo, Diabo) e Buth (Espírito maligno) . JORGE BARBOZA
A selection of prose by “Portugal’s greatest writer of the twentieth century . . . as addictive, and endearing, as Borges and Calvino” (The Washington Post Book World). Building on the wonderful Fernando Pessoa & Co.: Selected Poems, which was acclaimed by Booklist as “a beautiful one-volume course in the soul of the twentieth century,” translator Richard Zenith has now edited and translated selections from Pessoa’s prose, offering a second volume of this forgotten master’s flights of imagination and melancholy wit. Though known primarily as a poet, Pessoa wrote prose in several languages and every genre—the novel, short stories, letters, and essays. The pieces collected here span intellectual inquiry, Platonic dialogue, and literary rivalries between Pessoa’s many alter egos—a diverse cast of literary voices he called ‘heteronyms’—who launch movements and write manifestos. There are appreciations of Shakespeare, Dickens, Wilde, and Joyce; critical essays in which one heteronym derides the work of another; experiments with automatic writing; and works that toy with the occult. Also included is a generous selection from Pessoa’s masterpiece, The Book of Disquiet, freshly translated by Richard Zenith from newly discovered materials. Fernando Pessoa was one of the greatest exponents of modernism. The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa is an important contribution to literature that brings back to life a forgotten but crucial part of the canon.
A. A. DaSilva nasceu em Vilar de Nantes, Chaves, quando pelos fi ns de Fevereiro de 1946 os salgueiros começavam a lançar os primeiros botoes. Estudou Humanidades com os Padres Vicentinos. Frequentou o ISEE (Instituto Superior de Estudos Eclesiásticos), em Lisboa, onde cursou Filosofia e Teologia. Trabalhou em Cabinda, para a Cabinda Gulf Oil, como intérprete e "Time-keeper". Foi professor, empregado bancário e chefe de Importaçoes e Exportaçoes, em Moçambique, onde casou e viveu quase vinte anos. Na London Guildhal University, em ligaçao com a La Universidad de Alcalá de Henares cursou Psicologia e Línguas Modernas. Vive em Londres e aí trabalha em ligaçao com várias Organizaçoes ligadas à Saúde Mental.
Not all hurry leads to hastiness. Not all slowness is synonymous with tardiness. Because of all the hustle and bustle, sometimes we pass through life without even looking it in the face. And sometimes if we don’t hurry we let life pass by, and we get stuck on the treadmill, among abandoned dreams, renounced potential, desires swallowed by time. It’s what Ana Cristina Leonardos and Martha Estima Scodro show with great sensitivity in Festina Lente — Make Haste Slowly. More than crafting a beautiful study of the female soul, Martha and Ana Cristina reveal here that which is most human on the surface of finiteness, in the construction of identities, and in the transience of feelings. With provocations that generate conversations, and conversations that generate still more provocations, Ana Cristina and Martha invite their interviewees to dive into a delicate process of intimate excavation, and they inquire of them: “What is the most important question you have asked yourself over the last year, and why is it important?”. Inspired by this and other doubts of growing importance, the authors move through desires, fears, guilt, and obligations that fill the thoughts of these women. Thus, Ana Cristina Leonardos and Martha Estima Scodro have written a book that is critically urgent, and they open windows that give us glimpses of amazing discoveries, dormant vigor, unspeakable losses, delays transformed into steps, and invitations to soar amongst our widest horizons within. Márcio Vassallo
A critical biography of the modernist Portuguese writer. As a young man Fernando Pessoa aspired to, as he put it, “be plural like the universe.” He would fulfill this desire by inventing over one hundred fictional alter-egos which he called heteronyms. Beginning with Pessoa’s early days in Portugal, this philosophical biography explores the life, work, and imaginative universe of this modernist pioneer. Bartholomew Ryan offers a detailed overview of Pessoa’s writings on radical politics, his ventures into esoteric realms, and his expertise in astrology. Along the way, Ryan unravels Pessoa’s real and literary relationships and explores his unfinished prose masterpiece, The Book of Disquiet. This is a compelling, timely exploration of Pessoa’s profound, innovative ideas.
The papers assembled in this volume explore a relatively new area in scholarship on the ancient novel: the relationship between an ostensibly non-philosophical genre and philosophy. This approach opens up several original themes for further research and debate. Platonising fiction was popular in the Second Sophistic and it took a variety of forms, ranging from the intertextual to the allegorical, and discussions of the origins of the novel-genre in antiquity have centred on the role of Socratic dialogue in general and Plato's dialogues in particular as important precursors. The papers in this collection cover a variety of genres, ranging from the Greek and Roman novels to utopian narratives and fictional biographies, and seek by diverse methods to detect philosophical resonances in these texts.
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) is one of the most famous and significant authors in the history of western esotericism. Crowley has been long ignored by scholars of religion whilst the stories of magical and sexual practice which circulate about him continue to attract popular interest. "Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics" looks at the man behind the myth - by setting him firmly within the politics of his time - and the development of his ideas through his extensive and extraordinarily varied writings. Crowley was a rationalist, sympathetic to the values of the Enlightenment, but also a romantic and a reactionary. His search for an alternative way to express his religious feelings led him to elaborate his own vision of social and political change. Crowley's complex politics led to his involvement with many key individuals, organisations and groups of his day - the secret service of various countries, the German Nazi party, Russian political activists, journalists and politicians of various persuasions, as well as other writers - both in Europe and America. "Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics" presents a life of ideas, an examination of a man shaped by and shaping the politics of his times.
Fernando Pessoa is one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. Until some years ago known in the English-speaking world only among a minority of connaisseurs, his work is finally becoming available in English translations, and more are in the process of reaching the literary public. Born in Lisbon in 1888, Pessoa was only forty-seven when he died, but he left behind a staggering number of unpublished manuscripts that are still being screened and brought to light. George Steiner heralded the day Pessoa discovered his major Portuguese heteronyms, for no country had ever seen the birth of four great poets in a single day. That was a reference to the personae Pessoa created, the famous heteronyms Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, and Ricardo Reis, besides the man himself -- all poets in their own right with their biographies and even critical exchanges among themselves. Today well over a hundred Pessoa heteronyms are known, including, notably, the semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares, author of The Book of Disquiet, presently available in two English translations. Lately, another Pessoa is emerging -- an English writer, as well as a thinker. Indeed, having been educated in Durban, South Africa, where his stepfather was the consul of Portugal, the poet had a strong English education that shaped his life and thought. George Monteiro has been in the forefront of the uncovering of this side of Pessoa. Author, among many other works, of The Presence of Pessoa: English, American, and Southern African Literary Responses, and Fernando Pessoa and Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Literature, in this volume Monteiro continues to explore and interpret the world of Pessoa to English-speaking readers.
