The beginnings of Pessoa’s multilingualism (he knew French, English, and Spanish as well as Portuguese) stem from this period. It might be argued that the unfolding of alter egos was an ...

Few of the poet Fernando Pessoa’s diaries survive, mostly businesslike lists of classes he attended or didn’t attend, people he met roaming the cafés of Lisbon, and daily activities. The most ...

I had never heard of Pessoa before learning of this book. The writer, who lived from 1888 to 1935, was apparently little known outside of Portuguese literary circles in his lifetime.

Fernando Pessoa, the Portuguese modernist who, in many respects—and in many aspects—is a fitting poet for our identity-obsessed age, was at least four poets. His best verse, and much of his prose, ...

The facts of Pessoa’s destiny are briefly told. Born in Lisbon in 1888, he moved to South Africa at the age of seven, when his stepfather was appointed Portuguese consul in Durban.

Fernando Pessoa and His Fictional Coterie of Poets The Portuguese author concealed his identity behind aliases, or what he called heteronyms, who served as guides to living. Nolan Kelly January 30 ...

PESSOA A Biography By Richard Zenith The emergence of Fernando Pessoa as one of the world’s great modern writers, one worthy of Richard Zenith’s monumental new biography, has been nearly a ...