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Pessoa is the Portuguese word for “person,” and there is nothing he less wanted to be. Again and again, in both poetry and prose, Pessoa denied that he existed as any kind of distinctive individual. “I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist,” he writes in one poem. “I’m the gap between what I’d like to be and what others have made of me. . . . T... See more
Fernando Pessoa’s Disappearing Act


I’m oppressed by the very self that encases me,
Fernando Pessoa • The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics)

“Lo que Fernando Pessoa escribe pertenece a dos categorías de obras, a las que podemos llamar ortónimas y heterónimas. No se puede decir que son anónimas o pseudónimas porque realmente no lo son.
Pablo Javier Pérez López • Poesía, ontología y tragedia en Fernando Pessoa
