Fernando Pessoa: orthonym (Songbook and Message)

7 Novembro 2017, 10:00 • Helena Carvalhão Buescu

An introductory biographical note on Fernando Pessoa.

The process of heteronimy (depersonalization and multiplicity), some philosophical (Theory of Knowledge/Gnoseology and the Rückenfigur) and literary (Baudelaire) influences; the concept of the painful interval (gap between the subject who knows and the object/world he wants to know) and an intertextual relationship (by comparison and confrontation) with Camões' The Lusiads.

Reading and discussion of "Pedrouços", "Autopsychography" and "O cat playing in the street" (from Songbook); "Coat of Arms: The Castles" and "The Sea Monster" (from Message).