{"id":257366,"date":"2007-11-01T16:19:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T16:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/11\/01\/the-guardian-on-pessoa\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:36:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:36:14","slug":"the-guardian-on-pessoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/11\/01\/the-guardian-on-pessoa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian on Pessoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2007\/11\/the_solitary_voices_of_fernand.html\">adds<\/a> to the recent, and unexpected, surge of interest in Fernando Pessoa:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Although admired throughout Europe for his myriad alter egos &#8211; the 72 highly distinct personae he assumed over the course of his writing life &#8211; it is Fernando Pessoa&#8217;s mellifluous writing on emptiness that continues to haunt my imagination each time I read him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>John Gray has argued, in his introductory essay on Pessoa, that these &#8220;heteronyms&#8221;, as Pessoa called them, demonstrate that the indvidual subject &#8211; the heart of western philosophy &#8211; is an illusion, which Pessoa&#8217;s heteronymous authorship undercuts. But I would still argue that Pessoa penetrates, more importantly, into the dark side of the human psyche in his posthumously published collection of fragments: <em>The Book of Disquiet<\/em> &#8211; his disconnected ode to emptiness written by his semi-pseudonymous creation Bernando Soares.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian adds to the recent, and unexpected, surge of interest in Fernando Pessoa: Although admired throughout Europe for his myriad alter egos &#8211; the 72 highly distinct personae he assumed over the course of his writing life &#8211; it is Fernando Pessoa&#8217;s mellifluous writing on emptiness that continues to haunt my imagination each time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[2136,7036],"class_list":["post-257366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ejvl","tag-fernando-pessoa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361346,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257366\/revisions\/361346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}