The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

Fernando Pessoa one of the greatest writers in Portuguese created an immense parallel world and several heteronyms so as to endure the loneliness of genius José Saramago 1998 Nobel Laureate in Literature has a heteronym Ricardo Reis return to Portugal after a 16year exile in Brazil 1936 is a perilous year with Mussolinis fascism Hitlers Nazism Spains Civil War and Salazars New State in Portugal And Fernando Pessoa meets his creation Reis Two women Lídia and Marcenda are Reis carnal and impossible passions Life and Death as one allows for literature and cinema