Fernando Pessoa’s Disappearing Act | The New Yorker

archive.today webpage capture Saved from no other snapshots from this url 29 Aug 2017 10:58:27 UTC All snapshots from host www.newyorker.com WebpageScreenshot sharedownload .zipreport bug or abuseBuy me a coffee Shop Sign in |Link your subscription News Culture Books Business & Tech Humor Cartoons Magazine Video Podcasts Archive Goings On Books September 4, 2017 Issue Fernando Pessoa’s Disappearing Act The mysterious masterpiece of Portugal’s great modernist. By Adam Kirsch “The Book of Disquiet” was found, in fragments, only after Pessoa’s death.Illustration by Riccardo Vecchio 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 prose, Pessoa denied that he existed as any kind of distinctive individual. “I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist,” he writes in one poem. “I’m the gap between what I’d like to be and what others have ma

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