HETERONIMS BIOGRAPHIES:

 

• Alberto Caeiro Biography }
• Ricardo Reis Biography }
• Álvaro de Campos Biography
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• Bernardo Soares Biography }

"[...]     An overdose of silence, lividly obscure. In its own way following closely between the rapid, occasional rumbling of the wagons, a truck roars by - ridiculous, mechanical echo of what goes by, real in the near distance of the skies. 

      Again, without warning, magnetic light gushes forth, winking. The heart beats a short gulp. A bell jar overhead breaks into huge splinters of the dome. A new cloth of bad rain strikes the sound of the ground. 

      [The boss Vasques'] lived face is falsely green and shaken. I observe him there in the dificulty of breathing, with fraternal feeling, knowing I shall also be like that."      [...]

in  «PROSE OF BERNARDO SOARES» by Bernardo Soares

About the work of the Semi-Heteronym Bernardo Soares:         The reader should not though I am publishing (it publishes itself) the «Book of Disquiet» under the name of a certain Bernardo Soares, assistant bookkeeper in the city of Lisbon, I did not include it in the Fictions of the Interlude, not only are ideas and feelings distinct from mine but the very structural technique, the style, is different. Thus, each character is an enterily distinct creation and not merely constructed differently. That's why verse predominates in Fictions of the Interlude. It is more difficult to be someone else in prose.     (Fernando Pessoa, Concerning the Work of Bernardo Soares)

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