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Fernando Pessoa and Lisbon

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His writings are some of the most important of the 20th century, and it´s since the different voices that he created, since his different heteronyms, he built a poetic universe of multiple universes, in which characters such as Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Bernardo Soares and Ricardo Reis handle different writing registers, each with its own characteristics, style and language. Today, they talk daily about Anonymous on the social networks, and they find in the figure of anonymity an answer to political action, the creation of situations of protest and a critique of the current political catastrophe. Anonymity becomes a tool to extend information and community dialogue. In Pessoa´s case, the mark of anonymity also worked to go into coordinates of himself which, under his own name, wouldn´t have been possible.

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Anonymity or the manipulation of other names to configure creative works has always been present in the different registers of universal art; be it painting, sculpture, performance, novel, the use of negation of one´s name and the calling to the creation of a new ´real´ figure which is used as a presentation of artistic work has been used both to promote bigger expressive possibilities and breaking moral and thought barriers, as well as creating fictions inside the fictitious world of artistic creation.

In everyday life, in reality, the effort in highlighting a name which gives value to that in what one takes positions towards the world from art, politics or human relations, doesn´t stop being part of the process to capitalize, from the unity of the name, another social product which the system often strives to construct an identity, in the same way that it classifies and bounds us, giving us a forced freedom with the dilemmas that it involves; having a name, an image, a window to social networks doesn´t necessarily mean that the character of the individuals is authentic, versatile or independent, all the opposite.

We find ourselves in an entanglement of meanings and signifiers, in which identity always competes to make itself a space inside a community, without any clear autonomy. In the work of Pessoa, this becomes intangible in the writing itself, in that the poet, through his heteronyms, gives himself the faculty to divide himself in all the people and personalities that configure his self conscience-intelligence. Like an included operation of uprising against the poetic-literary system always ruled by the interests which surpass the value of the work or the talent of its author, Pessoa and his heteronyms revert this stagnant way, giving a bigger expressive load and universal condition to the writing with its different tones.

Pessoa is the poet of Lisbon par excellence. His universal character is a recommended reading for those who want to understand the character of this city on a much closer level.

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Get apartments in Lisbon and get to know a bit more of the life of Fernando Pessoa, the streets that he walked and the worlds that he saw and made possible in his writings. The voyage of poetry isn´t just in the books but also in the streets where, still, poetry runs, makes spaces and new encounters. Lisbon is waiting for you.

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