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Fernando Pessoa - English heteronyms

This digital edition presents the transcription of the set of texts by English personalities invented by Fernando Pessoa that we have gathered here under the name “English heteronyms”. It includes texts signed by English heteronyms, texts in English signed by Portuguese heteronyms and English Poems by Pessoa. The documents transcribed are in Fernando Pessoa’s Archive in the custody of the National Library of Portugal, with quota E3. All facsimiles are accompanied by a critical lesson and a paleographic transcription, which is available for download in the “PDF” field.

 

Medium
F. Pessoa - Heterónimos ingleses
BNP/E3, 78A – 38
BNP/E3, 78A – 38
Alexander Search
Identificação
Alexander Search – Fraternity

[BNP/E3, 78A – 38]

 

Fraternity.

 

I have no reason to love mankind,

Nor, alas! mankind one to love me;

To all its vileness I am not blind,

And all vileness it well can see.

 

If my hatred in words ne'er wreak

I know, as none do, ununderstood

It is of all men; were I to speak,

As unknown of them remain it would.

 

So, all in instinct, a mutual hate,

Hid under smiling, we bear each other.

All mankind's kindness well I can rate;

And I hate each man, and call him “brother”.

 

Alexander Search.

 

September 8. 1908.

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Classificação
Literatura
Dados Físicos
Dados de produção
September 8. 1908
Inglês
Dados de conservação
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
Palavras chave
Documentação Associada
Vasco Graça Moura, “Alexandre em «Busca» de Fernando Pessoa, ou cinco breves notas sobre a poesia de Alexander Search, seguidas de oitos poemas seus e respectivas traduções”, in Actas do 1º Congresso Internacional de Estudos Pessoanos, Porto, Brasília Editora – Centro de Estudos Pessoanos, 1979, p. 697.