Fernando Pessoa and the Theatre of His Self

Zenith, Richard

doi:10.2307/3245710

Performing Arts Journal

1993

DOI: 10.2307/3245710

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Fernando Pessoa and the Theatre of His Self

Richard Zenith¹

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“… 3 [Another version of the genesis of the heteronyms], in Selected Prose (Zenith, 2007, pp. 261–262).…”

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Fernando Pessoa: The Poet as Philosopher

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Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) lived what was in many ways an astonishingly modern, transcultural, and translingual life. He was born in Lisbon, the point of departure for Vasco da Gama's voyage to India as commemorated by Pessoa's forebear, the poet Luís de Camões. Pessoa grew up in Anglophone Durban, acquiring a lifelong love for English poetry and language. Returning to Lisbon, from where he would never again leave, he set himself the goal of travelling throughout an infinitude of inner landscapes, to be an explorer of inner worlds. He published very little, but left behind a famous trunk containing a treasure trove of scraps, on which were written some of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century, mainly in Portuguese but also a substantial amount in English and French. Pessoa is now acknowledged as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and he has emerged over the last decade as a forgotten voice in twentieth-century modernism, taking his rightful place alongside C.P. Cavafy, Franz Kafka, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Jorge Luis Borges. Pessoa was also a serious student of philosophy and himself a very creative philosopher, yet his genius as a philosopher has as yet hardly been recognized at all.

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“… 3 [Another version of the genesis of the heteronyms], in Selected Prose (Zenith, 2007, pp. 261–262).…”

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“… 12 [Aspects], in Selected Prose (Zenith, 2007, p. 2). I am not alone in appealing to the language of the virtual to elucidate heteronymy: David Jackson calls the heteronyms ‘virtual authors’ (2010, p. 15) and John Frow describes them as ‘virtual selves’ (2014, p. 222).…”

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Fernando Pessoa: The Poet as Philosopher

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2023

Roy. Inst. Philos. Suppl.

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