Pessoa

• “Fittingly, Rita Sobrol Campos's photographic record of an old-time Olivetti typewriter text work, The Last Myth In The History Of Mankind, makes cryptic use of the writings of the early-20th century Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, perhaps the most self-questioning multiple-personality, spirited melancholic and forward-looking nostalgic in the entire history of world literature.”

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• “As Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa used to say, 'We are the size of our dreams.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Cutting Costs and Dreaming Big

• “Rivers of memory surge and overflow as each narrator, given two chapters apiece, pours out half-remembered dreams ( "all I could remember was finding Weisz" -- another narrator -- "hanging upside down in the pantry like a bat"), snatches of Chilean politics, and references to Thomas Bernhard, Pessoa, and the Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski that don't feel superfluous.”

  The Huffington Post: Janet Byrne: Nicole Krauss's 'Great House' Reviewed

• “Rivers of memory surge and overflow as each narrator, given two chapters apiece, pours out half-remembered dreams ( "all I could remember was finding Weisz" -- another narrator -- "hanging upside down in the pantry like a bat"), snatches of Chilean politics, and references to Thomas Bernhard, Pessoa, and the Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski that don't feel superfluous.”

  The Huffington Post: Janet Byrne: Nicole Krauss's 'Great House' Reviewed

• “Francis Pessoa commented on Luciana Capiberibe's blog post above, adding [pt]:”

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• “He invoked the French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire and the early 1900s Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa as inspirations for his posts.”

  The Huffington Post: Dead Sea Scrolls Case: Son Says There's No Crime

• “Was it an “abuse” for the famous poet Fernando Pessoa to use over 70 pseudonyms, staging conversations between them in newspapers and leading scholars around the world to believe that they were real people?”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » The Communications Decency Act of 1996 Meets the Closed Frontier

• “Fernando Pessoa used at least 70 pseudonyms, fooling academics into believing that all kinds of literary figures existed all over the world.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » The Battle for the Internet:

• “One imagines a Pessoa of cinema, ruling like the other over the people of his heteronyms.”

  The Huffington Post: Bernard-Henri Lévy: Alain Delon on Taddéï. Régis Jauffret Pilloried?

• “Pessoa died 75 years ago this week, but the famously glum author of the Book of Disquiet – whose central character exuded an air "born from the indifference of having suffered a great deal" – would recognise the wave of melancholy sweeping over his country.”

  The Guardian: Fernando Pessoa's poetry turned to by Portuguese as austerity bites

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