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I’m not there—Portuguese poet, critic, and translator Fernando Pessoa wrote under at least seventy-five pseudonyms. Here in his papers, digitized by Portugal’s Biblioteca Nacional, we’ve caught him crossing out his name. A moment of authorial disguise? abnegation?

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   Actually, Pessoa called them heteronyms, and they’re a bit more sophisticated than pseudonyms. No subterfuge involved,...

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   Fernando Pessoa wrote under at least seventy-five pseudonyms. Here in his papers, digitized by Portugal’s Biblioteca...

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   Rascunho de poema de Alberto Caeiro (Fernando Pessoa).

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    Fernando Pessoa

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