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A Portrait of Antonio Tabucchi as a Posthumous Heteronym of Fernando Pessoa: Fiction, Dream, and Phantasmagoria

2003; Klincksieck; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

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Emmanuel Bouju,

Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies

Through the analysis of Antonio Tabucchi’s books (essays, short stories, novel) dedicated to Fernando Pessoa, this article examines the paradoxical hypothesis that the Italian writer named “Antonio Tabucchi” would truly be a posthumous heteronym of the Portuguese poet, lately sprung out of the “trunk full of people.” By transforming the reading and interpretation of Pessoa’s writings in works of fiction where the poet and his other selves appear as ghostly figures – on the model of a dream, of a delirium and even of an hallucination –, Antonio Tabucchi situates himself in his own novelistic fantasmagoria, moves from Italian to Portuguese with Requiem, and draws his portrait of an artist as a young Pessoa.