![]() ![]() He looks forward to recognition after death not because he expects to achieve something, but as a “present pleasure” – an inert, pure hope. ![]() He fondly remembers an office boy who collected travel brochures, but never travelled. He advocates buying books never to read them. Spending most of his time alone, Soares sits thinking, celebrating the “sombre majesty of splendours no one knows”. But, constructed through 20 years of unpublished writings, Soares is considered the mask closest to the author’s own personality. He wrote prose and poetry under an array of personae he called “heteronyms”, many of which had their own sub-identities and pseudonyms. ![]() Pessoa, who died in 1935, is now considered Portugal’s finest modernist. ![]()
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