Pessoa, this volume of being: An anthropological experiment
This article is an essay to apply the notion of volume of being to Fernando Pessoa. The volume of being refers to a human being. It is a container with its edge and a content made up of various components corresponding to the major themes of the human and social sciences: action, gesture, emotion, a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brown University
2023-12-01
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| Series: | Pessoa Plural |
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| Online Access: | https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:pkushyb6/PDF/ |
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| Summary: | This article is an essay to apply the notion of volume of being to Fernando Pessoa. The volume of being refers to a human being. It is a container with its edge and a content made up of various components corresponding to the major themes of the human and social sciences: action, gesture, emotion, a thought, idea, memory, character, temperament, social or cultural markers. The article is presented as an exercise in anthropology, not literary criticism. It is based on fragments from The Book of Disquiet. Pessoa becomes a volume of being structured by a character or temperament, his memory, his feelings, his modes of consciousness. Rather than focusing on heteronymic multiplicity, the author insists on the intrastructuration of these elements within “the Volume-Pessoa” writing, inventing, remembering and comparing. |
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| ISSN: | 2212-4179 |