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 ...

Her thesis on the poetry and poetics of Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) was the first on the Portuguese author to be defended in Brazil, and only the second in the world. Pessoa was the first to be ...

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 ...

Philosophical Essays: a Critical Edition Fernando Pessoa Contra Mundum Press, 260pp, £15 “I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.” As a summary of the work of the ...

Fernando Pessoa (trans. Margaret Jull Costa), The Book of Disquiet: Complete edition (Serpent’s Tail, 2017) Fernando Pessoa (trans. Richard Zenith), The Book of Disquiet (Penguin, 2002) ...