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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 – 37
BNP/E3, 78A – 37
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Alexander Search
Identificação
Alexander Search – Pity? No!

[BNP/E3, 78A – 37]

 

Documents of Mental Decadence.

 

Delirium.

 

Pity? No!

 

Pity? No! I wish not pity.

That were but a bitterer scorn,

Disdain ruthlessly made witty

With a serious look to strain

Its awful joke. No; let me mourn

In peace. Pity me not again!

 

Pity? No! Let more scorn come,

More indifference, more disdain:

These are the conforts of my home.

To change their look to pity were too far

To make me feel a direr pain.

Pretend not good: it cannot be.

Let evils be all seem as they are.

To mask them were a mockery

Heartless and evilly rare.

 

Alexander Search

 

Aug. 6. 1908.

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Classificação
Literatura
Dados Físicos
Dados de produção
August 6. 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. 692.