Madalena sofia salgado lobo antunes biography

With a PhD in Portuguese Studies, with a focus on Literary Studies, Madalena is now developing a Master's project at CRIA on the symbolic value of the work of.!

Madalena Lobo Antunes

Autonomy by Defacement: Fernando Pessoa's Authorial Escape

Fernando Pessoa is an author who defies generic notions of authorial identification.

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João Lobo Antunes was born on June 4, 1944 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Has a younger half-sister from her father's second marriage with Maria do Espírito Santo Silva Salgado: Madalena Sofia (b.

With a PhD in Portuguese Studies, with a focus on Literary Studies, Madalena is now developing a Master's project at CRIA on the symbolic value of the work of.

Portuguese art includes many different styles from many different eras.

Paula Lobo Antunes as Madalena.

more Fernando Pessoa is an author who defies generic notions of authorial identification. By creating multiple fictional voices, heteronyms that wrote poetry and prose identifying themselves as authors, Pessoa distracted the exegesis creating a textual world of distorted fictionality.

Recently, however, we have overcome our own tendency to fall for his mischievous tricks and readily identify his unfinished oeuvre as the work of a single, biographically determined, writer. Be this as it may, the fact that such an oeuvre exists and that its author managed to escape clear identification (Pessoa placed himself instead as a mere character in his own dramatic ensemble) proves that our conceptual tools can be insufficient in dealing with authorial defacement.

This paper will analyse how Fernando Pesso