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"Life and Work" Dossier

No. 8 (2021): Caderno Vida e Obra

Os Estylos são Função dos Indivíduos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1888.8007
Submitted
August 1, 2024
Published
2021-11-30

Abstract

In this paper, I propose some associations between Pessoa's reflections on style and his definition of freedom and autonomy. According to the described point of view, style becomes a manifestation of a superlative state of access to culture from which the author acquires an expression freed from conventional shackles, allowing a management and adaptation of different cultural vocabularies, represented, for example, by the various mythologies adopted in writing. The problem of style, usually read in terms of aesthetic issues or the constitution of heteronymic individuality and the debate between heteronyms, is thus associated with other relevant issues in Fernando Pessoa's theoretical universe.