A Man Without a Name: O Banqueiro Anarchista and the Impossibility of Language

Abstract

Duality is a cross-wise theme found throughout O Banqueiro Anarchista, story written by Fernando Pessoa in 1922. This article aims at revisiting what previous scholars have analyzed about the narration's paradox and oxymoron while proposing that not only is the topic of anarchism and finance the main expression of duality, but also the characters themselves, the plot, the setting, and, above all, the linguistic structures used throughout the story. The article will analyze how the protagonist, with his rhetoric and his manipulation of logic, stands as a humanized metaphor of language and linguistic phenomena, simultaneously destroying and building a new lexical universe.

Keywords

• Pessoa, FernandoBanqueiro anarquista
• Oxymoron
• Paradox
• Gallicized structures
• Oximoro
• Paradoxo
• Estrutura Galicizada