The Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi devoted most of his life to translating and studying the works of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. The master’s thesis deals with Tabucchi’s connection with Portugal, some of his narrative elements and the influence of Pessoa on his writing. It focuses mainly on Pessoa's literary concept called “heteronymy”. Heteronymy is defined as writing in the name of different fictitious personalities, so-called heteronyms. The master’s thesis, which is based on the originality and specificity of the heteronymic writing aims to prove the hypothesis that heteronyms as personalities to whom Pessoa attributed their own authentic lives, with diverse poetics and writing styles, perform different functions and represent various themes that Pessoa could not express through his personality, his way of life, his perception of the world and his poetics.
The Master’s thesis substantiates the hypothesis based on the interpretation described in Tabucchi’s Un baule pieno di gente, in which he collected all his fundamental texts on heteronymy, including the roles and functions attributed to the heteronyms of Pessoa, one of the most enigmatic poets of the twentieth century.
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