Bernardo Soares: The Never Accomplished Travel(s) – Writing and Seeing

Abstract

The Art that emerged in the early years of the Portuguese 20th century, similarly to what occurred in Europe, was invested with expectations and strong beliefs. Nonetheless works and ideas were only accessible to few that were near to the new approaches and paradigms. The unspeakable and the unexpected came up from the intellectual and sensitive verve of bold poets or artists, experimenting daring structures and actions. That was the case of Fernando Pessoa literary production, enriched by his heteronymous’ magnum opus. Let’s take a walk into slow unquietness, in order to recognize singular aesthetic goals shared by writers and philosophers that might be [intrinsically] connected with the Portuguese Poet, hereby presented through this semi-heteronymous Bernardo Soares. The conceptual scenery demands upon strong reminiscences projecting melancholic, nostalgic feelings and undoubtedly expectations at a time. Walking does not imply travelling or great displacements, it doesn’t imply any journey at all, shaped such as a Bernardo Soares’ A Voyage I never made understood as a Never Accomplished Travel.