IL MARINAIO | 1988 | FERNANDO PESSOA | ANTONIO TABUCCHI Palm Plants It is a deluxe

It is a deluxe

by Giovanna Melegari (2000)

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IL MARINAIO | 1988 | FERNANDO PESSOA | ANTONIO TABUCCHI Palm Plants It is a deluxeThe Mariner is a short static drama written by Fernando Pessoa in 1913 and first published in 1915 in the avant garde review Orpheu. Set in a single night, three young women keep vigil over a deceased companion in a dimly lit room. To resist the dissolution of identity that dawn threatens to bring, they share dreams and invent imagined lives. The central dream is of a mariner stranded on a deserted island, who creates for himself a nostalgic homeland