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Fernando Pessoa

July 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Fernando Pessoa is a Portuguese poet, born in Lisbon in 1888. To understand it’s relationship with the city, picture the relationship between Kafka and Prague, but not so commercially exploited. Pessoa is Lisbon and Lisbon is Pessoa. He was born in Largo do Chiado, and spent is childhood in Durban, South Africa. At the age [...]

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Tags: History · Personalities