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Anyone else familiar with this guy?

I'm asking about Fernando Pessoa (1888 - 1935)

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 A lot still unpublished.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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therighttothink50 · 56-60, M
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Jack Kerouac

This the reason for your name?
ArtieKat · M
@therighttothink50 I asked the same question! Great minds think alike.