Fernando Pessoa
Portuguese poet, writer, and philosopher (1888-1935); creator of the heteronymic system including Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, Álvaro de Campos, and Bernardo Soares · Portugal · Writers · Died at 47
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Something wrong?He published under seventy-five names - not pseudonyms, he insisted, but heteronyms, each with its own intellect and aesthetic. Three of those invented poets became as real to Portuguese literature as Pessoa himself.
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, I know not what tomorrow will bring
Ah, poder ser tu, sendo eu! Ter a tua alegre inconsciência, E a consciência disso!
A liberdade é a possibilidade do isolamento... Se te é impossível viver só, nasceste escravo.
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Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa was born on 13 June 1888 in Portugal and wrote in Portuguese, English, and French. He became one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century, working as poet, critic, translator, and publisher. The turn was his invention of approximately seventy-five heteronyms - fully realized alternate identities, not mere pen names - three of whom (Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis) developed independent styles and sometimes extreme views that Pessoa himself didn't hold. He died on 30 November 1935, leaving behind a body of work split across dozens of voices, a fractured mirror that made him one of the greatest poets in Portuguese literature.
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