Murilo Mendes re-reads Fernando Pessoa

• Main Author: Leão do Nascimento, Aline
• Publication Date: 2024
• Format: Article
• Language: por
• Source: Convergência Lusíada (Online)
• Download full: https://www.convergencialusiada.com.br/rcl/article/view/1301
• topic: Modernisms; Murilo Mendes; Fernando Pessoa; Reception; Luso-Brazilian; Modernismos; Murilo Mendes; Fernando Pessoa; Recepção; Luso-brasilidade

Readings on Fernando Pessoa by the Brazilian poet Murilo Mendes will be presented, from the publication in a newspaper in 1944 of his article “Fernando Pessoa”, to the prose “Fernando Pessoa”, from the book Janelas Verdes written in the mid-60s. Moreover, other mentions of the Portu­guese poet by Murilo Mendes will be considered, such as in letter to the Portuguese critic and writer Adolfo Casais Monteiro in the 1950s, and in “Murilograma a Fernando Pessoa”, a poem from 1964. The aim is to con­tribute to an understanding of the way in which Murilo reads or re-reads Fernando Pessoa, situate these readings in their contexts of production and to highlight the extent to which they have changed over time.