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Ricardo Reis ( Oporto 19 September 1887), was one of the most important heteronyms created by the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa . ""I have put all my mental discipline into Ricardo Reis, dressed in his own music." — Fernando Pessoa, "Letter to Adolfo Casais Monteiro", January 13, 1935. [1]
Ricardo Reis. List of Pessoa's heteronyms. Other writers and their heteronyms. Heteronyms in music. See also. Notes. References. External links. Heteronym (literature) The literary concept of the heteronym refers to one or more imaginary character (s) created by a writer to write in different styles.
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Here we propose a reading of five poems by Fernando Pessoa, namely by his heteronym Ricardo Reis, which the Portuguese author published during his lifetime (1888-1935). This is what Pessoa wrote in 1935 (in a letter to Casais Monteiro) about this heteronym, who made its public debut in 1924:
Ricardo Reis was another—a doctor who received a classical medical training and supported monarchy. While it’s unclear what Pessoa’s exact relationship to his heteronyms was, it’s certain that he didn’t view them simply as figments of his imagination, like so many characters in a novel.
Jan 1, 2006 · Writing obsessively in French, English, and Portuguese, poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) left a prodigious body of work, much of it credited to three “heteronyms”―Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, and Alvaro de Campos―alter egos with startlingly different styles, points of view, and biographies.
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'It was Pessoa that was consuming us': On Lisbon and The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis; Jerónimo Pizarro; Portuguese Studies; Modern Humanities Research Association; Volume 38, Number 1, 2022; pp. 78-94; 10.1353/port.2022.0004; Article
gods emerged in his work to seem truly alive in the writings of Ricardo Reis and António Mora, and in a modernized form in some of Álvaro de Campos’s writings. A heteronym generally means a real, separate human being with an individual curriculum vitae, literary style and oeuvre, personal horoscope, and sometimes distinctive handwriting.
