Messages to the fiancée - I almost lost my narcissism

Letters to the Fiancée - I Almost Lost My Narcissism Fernando Pessoa, Widad Benmousi Publication date: 28/04/2010 Publisher: Dar Ward for Publishing and Distribution Type: Paperback, regular cover Publisher's note: One who says about Fernando Pessoa that he is one of the "pioneers" of that rare mixture of fusion and interaction of different conflicting elements, human, cultural, behavioral, social, and others, which cannot be integrated into a human being except through arduous struggles in pursuit of achieving a transient existence? In "The Devil’s Hour," Pessoa expresses this: Man is no different from an animal except that he knows he is not an animal. He is the first light that is nothing more than a visible dior. The animal becomes human because of the ignorance born within it... and knowledge is the unconscious of ignorance. Author's note: "Ophelia" is nothing but the only woman mentioned in Fernando Pessoa’s life; she alone bears witness to the brilliance of that man, full of multiple voices, always hiding behind countless peers, through whom he was able to create for himself more than one horizon... "Ophelia" collected his small messages in a small-sized book, to present us with another astonishment among Pessoa’s wonders. This text, I almost lost my narcissism, is nothing but an extension of that astonishment and that love which quickly faded.