Fernando Pessoa: The Poet With 72 Alter Egos

Few writers have multiplied themselves as radically, or as deliberately, as Fernando Pessoa. The Portuguese poet did not merely use pen names. He invented entire authors, complete with biographies, temperaments, philosophies, and distinctive literary styles. He called them heteronyms, and through them he built one of the strangest and most intricate bodies of work in modern literature.



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