“You must be Person to Person criticize in my name” – Daily News – Lisbon

Sá-Carneiro Mario died a hundred years ago, the April 26, 1916, and these could be the lost letters that Fernando Pessoa wrote him. Pedro Eiras “rediscovered” them to imagine them and recreate them. “As a detective, is not it?” He asks.

When it appears this idea to rewrite the lost letters of Fernando Pessoa to Mário de Sá-Carneiro?

desire, for 20 years. I read person, you know, from the 14, and Sá-Carneiro soon to follow. I live with them for a long time.

Also there already read the letters?

Yes, shortly after. The letters are fascinating. Staged, but exciting. Sometimes they are very tiny, others enter the bad-language territory. To some extent, none of it was for us to read. But of course the authors when they write, they know that one day it just published.

Hence also its staging?

Completely. There can not be innocent. Are public texts.

How close was their relationship?

We can not know for sure how much is there and the delivery’s hideout. What is good when we read a text one hundred years later is that we can suspect what is stated as true. “The poet is a pretender” [Person verse], then the cards are hypocrisies. Is a lot at stake. They are cast scandals, to measure consequences to seduce everyone and everything, and one and the other; They are testing trust, angry. And when Sá-Carneiro gets angry with person is violent. Person had to be really patient. . But it’s not a pretty sight

worked in this book

He has this very demanding rule: I can not escape the letters exist. If those letters that we read, and that is true, ask 20 times the balance of the bookstore, I’ll have to answer 20 times. Sá-Carneiro question, I answer. All the time. It is an insane attempt, sometimes playing the game. In chess, what’s beautiful is that the horse does not go the right, the king can not jump four houses. What’s nice here is to respect the rules, no joke cheating

She lived that year. – July 1915 to April 1916 – with the two

at various times, I found myself making calculations to see how long a letter can take to find out if it’s time person answering the letter Sá – Carneiro. One can not respond to a letter that have not read …

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