Pessoa in an International Web

"Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is Portugal's most celebrated poet of the twentieth century, who wrote under the guise of dozens of literary personalities, or heteronyms. As well as his poetry, however, his work is marked by a constantly inventive and innovative engagement with authors and literary traditions from an astonishing variety of sources, placing him firmly in the worldwide literary canon. The present volume brings together a number of experts at the forefront of Pessoa studies internationally, with chapters examining his literary relations with Italy, Spain, France, England and Portugal, as well as his contextualisation in relation to major philosophers such as Kant and Nietzsche. It features essays examining his work from a range of perspectives to complement the multi-faceted nature of Pessoa himself (psychoanalytical, philosophical, political and artistic) and it includes consideration of his prose masterpiece The Book of Disquiet , as well as of various aspects of his poetic oeuvre."

David G. Frier

Introduction: Pessoa/Pessoas? Part I: Before Pessoa: Observation and Affirmation 1. Nietzsche and the Super-Pessoa 2. António Mora and German Philosophy: Between Kant and Nietzsche 3. Pessoa, Shakespeare, Hamlet and the Heteronyms: Studies in Neurosis 4. Masters and Spectres: Pessoa's Haunts 5. Going Nowhere in Voyage autour de ma chambre and 'Viagem Nunca Feita' Part II: Pessoa and His Contemporaries: Tracing Possible Identities for the Self 6. Ode Triunfal' with a Breakdown at the End 7. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Unamuno, Bernardo Soares and the Literary Gaze 8. Representing Pessoa 9. Saramago's 'Other' Pessoas and 'Pessoan' Others: Heteronymic Creation and the Ethics of Alterity 10. Tabucchi's Pessoa: A Legacy Repaid?