Fernando Pessoa was a poet of Lisbon. The heteronyms are the story: several writers inside one life, with their own books. The portraits and the tomb at Jerónimos are the images people visit. He died in 1935.
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Pedro Ribeiro Simões · CC BY 2.0
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GualdimG · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Alcox66 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Gând
A sample thought. A colleague would remember the work, and the way it was done.
Paul
Gând
A sample thought. The family would write here what they still say at the table.
Elena
Poveste
The walk home
This is a sample story, so the page can show a longer memory. A daughter would write the walk home, the song in the kitchen, and the sentence that is still repeated.
Anna
Lumânare
A lasting sample light, so the page is not dark.
Nora
Lumânare
A sample light for the name we still say.
Sofia
Videoclipuri
A recording the family kept
A sample film for Fernando Pessoa. The family would put here a song or a piece of footage they still play.
Muzică
A song they loved
The family
Dar
Lumânare
A sample gift of light.
Helen
Dar
Carte
A sample card for Fernando Pessoa.
Mark
Dar
Floare
A sample flower, left on the page.
Iris
Cronologie
Born in Lisbon
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa was born in Lisbon.
Cronologie
The heteronyms
He gave separate names, among them Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, and Álvaro de Campos, to bodies of poems.
Cronologie
Died in Lisbon
He died in Lisbon. The tomb at the Jerónimos monastery is where visitors now stand.
Întâlnire
A Sunday visit
A sample gathering for Fernando Pessoa. The family would write the time, the place, and who is welcome.
The family
1888
1914
1935