Descrição

Covers for the protection of books, in fabric, inspired by the covers of some of the books that Fernando Pessoa read throughout his life and that are part of his private library. The diversity of subjects, authors, languages and genres of this library find correspondence in the variety of themes and forms that characterized what became Fernando Pessoa’s own work. Pessoa kept long dialogues with this books: "The Tempest", by Shakespeare; "Sonetos", by Camões; "The poetical Works", by Milton; "Por Tierras de Portugal y de España", by Unamuno; "Poems", by Walt Whitman; "Faust" by Goethe, and these covers highlight them.

MEASURES 

Front dimensions: closed cover 18 cm.

Interior measures with the cover open: 26 cm height x 35.5 cm width.

Did you know that the Private Library of Fernando Pessoa is the heart of Casa Fernando Pessoa. And that for Fernando Pessoa himself, "Books are papers painted with ink" and for the assistant bookkeeper in the city of Lisbon, Bernardo Soares, who was attributed the Book of Disquiet, "To read is to dream, guided by someone else's hand".

Follow your readings in a more private way with these original book covers and do as Fernando Pessoa, travel through reading and imagination.