Message

…his first book in Portuguese, Mensagem (Message), appeared. It attracted little attention, and Pessoa died the next year a virtual unknown.

…English, the fourth, Mensagem (1934; Message), a work in Portuguese comparable to Camões’s The Lusiads in its poetic national historicism—his literary archive contains more than 20,000 pages. His contribution to Portuguese drama was also significant. He adapted the concept of “static drama”—originally developed by the Belgian poet and playwright Maurice…