Fernando Pessoa’s ID card, 1900. (Photo by Marka / Universal Images Group via Getty Images) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Does genius know itself? Adrienne Rich thought so. She held that Emily Dickinson chose seclusion not ...

Anyone who knows the history of The Book of Disquiet will know what a bold claim completeness is. By Chris Power In a 1932 letter to João Gaspar Simões, Fernando Pessoa wrote that The Book of Disquiet ...

Pessoa had dozens of these alter egos, which he would eventually call “heteronyms.” He gave them birthdates and biographies, cast their horoscopes, practiced their signatures, and brought them along ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works and life of one of Portugal's greatest poets, who wrote in his own name and in those of several rounded characters he created. Show more Melvyn Bragg and ...

If ever there was a writer in flight from his name, it was Fernando Pessoa. Pessoa is the Portuguese word for “person,” and there is nothing he less wanted to be. Again and again, in both poetry and ...

The many identities of Fernando Pessoa. By John Gray Philosophical Essays: a Critical Edition Fernando Pessoa Contra Mundum Press, 260pp, £15 “I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Benjamin Moser PESSOA A Biography By Richard Zenith The emergence of Fernando Pessoa as one of ...

The many sides of the intriguing Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa and his other selves. Joining Rajan Datar are Richard Zenith, Mariana Gray de Castro and Bernard McGuirk. Show more Fernando Pessoa ...