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Fernando Pessoa and Lisbon
December 13, 2011 – 9:39 am | One Comment
Fernando Pessoa and Lisbon

His writings are some of the most important of the 20th century, and it’s since the different voices that he created, since his different heteronyms, he built a poetic universe of multiple universes, in which …

Traveling alone or with company
December 12, 2011 – 9:15 am | One Comment
Traveling alone or with company

Perhaps traveling, in its literal sense and as a center piece of recurring metaphors in the history of culture, is found at the root of all literature, including naturally religion. Whether it’s the Bible, which …

Lisbon and the book of disquiet
August 11, 2011 – 8:28 am | No Comment
Lisbon and the book of disquiet

The list of books which mention Lisbon is a long one. So many of them hope to trap the essence of the city in their pages, and very few achieve it – but even smaller …

The Oceans Festival in Lisbon
July 18, 2011 – 8:01 am | One Comment
The Oceans Festival in Lisbon

The banks of one of the biggest rivers in Europe, the Tajo, will be the home for the exotic Festival of the Oceans, held in Lisbon between the 30th of July and the 13th August.

In …

Aleister Crowley and Lisbon
January 31, 2011 – 9:19 am | 2 Comments
Aleister Crowley and Lisbon

Lisbon is rich in literature and ghosts, a city of great and memorable stories. For example, the mysterious disappearance in September 1930 of the occultist, mystic, writer, dissident of the Hermetic Order of the Golden …