He left behind a whole lot of writings in a giant trunk. A lot still unpublished. He was the man with no core - he wrote under the names of many others, people created by his own imagination - Heteronyms.
One of his biographers has said:-
Long before the deconstructionists began to apply their sledgehammers to the conceptual edifice that sheltered our Cartesian sense of personal identity, Pessoa had already self-deconstructed, and without any hammer.
I might download "The Book of Disquiet" which is a collection of his writings.
Just asking if any others here are familiar with him.
So no one has heard of him. He is a fascinating guy - or was. He seemed to have no "core" of his own but lived through imagined others, others who actually expressed totally diverse opinions. They even had tgeir own biographies/autobiographies. Fascinating.
In a much lesser way, I think of my own trail through over 30 or so Forums, and "screen names" in double figures. This over 30 or so years. Of how sometimes the "weight" of a particular name would in some ways affect how I expressed myself. Strange. That sense of a shimmering "self" whose centre is nowhere.
I have bought a hard copy of his "Book of Disquiet" and it holds great promise, just from a few dippings.
