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 A lot still unpublished.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.
Looks harmless enough:-
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