The existence according to Fernando Pessoa: "No one sees but the soul where he all alone dwells"

With this beautiful title, the author, Ricardo Pires de Souza, invites us to take a deep dive into the work of one of the greatest poets of all time: Fernando Pessoa.

The dive is guided by a reflection on the " parallel between Jungian ideas of oneself, of religious function and the numinous, and the existential anguish in Fernando Pessoa writing."

In a bold choice, Souza calls Fernando Pessoa to "speak of himself and his elaboration of existence and of God". In this passage Pessoa's poetry turns into a prose revealing the poet and brings to light "his fascination and his terror before the ideas of death and non-existence, as well as the imperative search for the meaning of existence and the meaning of his own life."

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