Pessoa

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: 2010

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

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

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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: 2010

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

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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.

Janet Byrne: Nicole Krauss's 'Great House' Reviewed Janet Byrne 2010

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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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.

Janet Byrne: Nicole Krauss's 'Great House' Reviewed Janet Byrne 2010

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 2010

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

Bernard-Henri Lévy: Alain Delon on Taddéï. Régis Jauffret Pilloried? Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010