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Article: Salazar and the New State in the writings of Fernando Pessoa.(Antonio de Olveira Salazar)(Critical essay)
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- Portuguese Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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ABSTRACT. The last six years of Fernando Pessoa's life, 1930-35, coincided with Salazar's personal triumph in Portugal, his crowning as 'leader' of the country, and the setting up and consolidation of his New State, the authoritarian regime that he would lead until 1968. This article aims to give an account of the process by which the 'trust' and 'acceptance' that Pessoa had expressed in various remarks about Salazar and the New State (albeit always cynical and disenchanted in tone) gave way to doubts, condemnation and mordant satire. The transformation is made very plain in many of the prose writings and poems he produced between February and November 1935, the last ten ...
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