Fernando Pessoa, the homoerotic drama

Abstract

This article maps the history of the critical reception of homoerotic desire in Pessoa's work; it brings to bear the question of homoeroticism within the paradigm of "local readings" of Pessoa; it analyses various relevant texts; and finally it suggests - on the basis of some well-known texts as well as previously unpublished ones - how the question of homoerotic desire allows for the possibility of a less metaphysical and even more nuanced global reading of Pessoa's work.

Keywords

• Fernando Pessoa
• literatura portuguesa
• homoerotismo
• Modernismo português.