Fernando Pessoa through the Eyes of Hubert Jennings: the master of multiplicity turned literary character

• Main Author: Lara, María Gómez
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Brown University 2015-10-01
• Series: Pessoa Plural
• Subjects: Jennings, H. D. (Hubert Dudley); Translations; Short stories; Traduções; Contos
• Online Access: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:757386/PDF/

Here we present three short stories written by Hubert Jennings while he lived in Portugal, in 1968 and 1969: "Rua Dona Estefânia," "From a Lisbon Window," and "At the Brasileira" – the first two unpublished, and the latter having four different versions (three recently found in the Jennings archive, and one published in 1988 in the South African journal Contrast). The introduction to these texts also analyzes the short story "Judica Me Deus," the only fictional chapter of Jennings's book The DHS Story, in which, seemingly for the first time, Fernando Pessoa was turned into a literary character. By focusing on "At the Brasileira" and "Judica Me Deus," comparing and contrasting how those pieces recreate Pessoa, this presentation places Jennings among authors such as José Saramago and Antonio Tabucchi, who would later also turn Pessoa and/or his heteronymous personae into elements of their own fictional worlds.