Now Playing: Disquiet Radio - Ep. 13: 'Social Fictions': Pessoa's Politics w/ Nick Burns

"SE O DANTAS É PORTUGUÊS EU QUERO SER ESPANHOL!"

— Almada Negreiros, "Manifesto Anti-Dantas"

Nick Burns, writer and editor at Americas Quarterly and contributing writer at the New Statesman, joins us in the studio to talk Fernando Pessoa's political writing, the 50th anniversary of Portugal's Carnation Revolution, literary feuds of the 1910s Lisbon lit scene, "The Anarchist Banker," the political scandals of the Orpheu group, and much more.

Other links mentioned:

• "The Politics of Fernando Pessoa", Nick Burns in New Left Review
• "Never Forget Portugal's Revolution", Nick Burns in Jacobin
• Manifesto Anti-Dantas by Jose de Almada Negreiros
• "O Banqueiro Anarquista" by Fernando Pessoa, originally published in Contemporanea no. 1 (1922)
• "Saudação a Walt Whitman" by Alvaro de Campos
• Pessoa: A Biography by Richard Zenith
• Sobre o Fascismo, a Ditadura Portuguesa e Salazar by Fernando Pessoa, ed. Jose Barreto

This episode was recorded live at the Radio Free Brooklyn studio on May 8th, 2024. The intro song in "Grândola, Vila Morena" by Zeca Afonso.