Epifanía y Poema en Prosa (El Livro do Desassossego de Fernando Pessoa/Bernardo Soares)

Abstract

The topic of this paper is the prose poem as an esthetic category in the work of Fernando Pessoa. It will address its subversive and hybrid aspects as a literary genre as well as its artistic ideology in the Book of Disquietude, written by the fi ctitous (i.e., semiheteronymic) Bernardo Soares. In addition to the problems pertaining to defi nitions of literary genres, an emphasis will be placed on the lyrical mode of modernist literature as witnessed in the so-called “epiphany,” especially its intertextuality with writers of the type of prose written as a poem.