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Title: Fernando Pessoa


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Fernando Pessoa
  • 1888-1935

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Pessoa person
  • Born Lisbon, lived in Durban, South Africa
    (stepfather was Portuguese consul)
  • produced fake newspapers written by different
    reporters, included poems and criticism and
    fake news
  • Early fascination with British Romantic Poets
    Edgar Allen Poe created English-speaking
    romantic Alexander Search

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  • Returned to Lisbon in 1905 and hardly ever left
    for rest of his life
  • 1910 First Portuguese Republic declared after
    seven centuries of rule by monarch

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Heteronym
  • various characters symptomatic of modernist
    literary technique in general they have
    something in common with Yeatss masks and
    Pounds personae, and are a logical outgrowth
    of modernisms attempt to make poetry seem
    impersonal or purely dramatic.
  • --- An Introduction to Fernando Pessoa

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  • Youre never truly yourself until you wear a
    mask.
  • --- Oscar Wilde

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  • The good Portuguese is various persons Never do
    I feel so Portuguese as when I feel that I am
    different from me Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis,
    Álvaro de Campos, Fernando Pessoa, and as many
    more as have been or will be.
  • -- Fernando Pessoa

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Marilyn Manson (Marilyn Monroe Charlie
Manson)
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albums The Eminem Show / The Marshall Mathers LP
/ The Slim Shady LP
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Alias
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Everyday Roles
  • Student

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Everyday Roles
  • Student
  • Husband/wife/daughter/son

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Everyday Roles
  • Student
  • Husband/wife/daughter/son
  • Friend

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Everyday Roles
  • Student
  • Husband/wife/daughter/son
  • Friend
  • Teammate

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Everyday Roles
  • Student
  • Husband/wife/daughter/son
  • Friend
  • Teammate
  • Employee

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Everyday Roles
  • Student
  • Husband/wife/daughter/son
  • Friend
  • Teammate
  • Employee
  • Customer

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  • For temperamental reasons that I do not propose
    to analyze, nor is it important that I analyze, I
    constructed within me various characters distinct
    among themselves and from me characters to whom
    I attributed various poems that, in terms of
    feelings and ideas, are not like those that I
    would write.
  • -- Fernando Pessoa

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Pessoas people
  • Alberto Caeiro pagan master

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Pessoas people
  • Alberto Caeiro pagan master
  • Álvaro de Campos Whitmanesque futurist

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Pessoas people
  • Alberto Caeiro pagan master
  • Álvaro de Campos Whitmanesque futurist
  • Ricardo Reis Neo-classicist

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Additional heteronyms
  • Bernando Soares prose writer, Book of
    Disquietude

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Additional heteronyms
  • Bernando Soares prose writer, Book of
    Disquietude
  • Fernando Pessoa -- orthonym impure and
    artless short, lyric poems

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  • I put in Caiero all my power of dramatic
    depersonalization, I put in Ricardo Reis all my
    mental discipline, dressed in the music that is
    appropriate to him, I put in Álvaro de Campos all
    the emotion that I give neither to myself nor to
    life.
  • -- Fernando Pessoa

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Autopsychography
  • Portuguese psicografia refers to the occult
    practice of writing through the suggestion or
    action of a spirit medium

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