The door and other stories

There is no such thing as a rule. All people are exceptions to a rule that does not exist. With this phrase, Fernando Pessoa provides the best definition of his personality and writing, for talking about Fernando Pessoa can only be about exception and distinction in the face of a multifaceted writer considered one of the greatest representatives of literary modernism in the twentieth century. He was a poet, a prose writer, an astrologer, a contractor, an economic thinker, and an inventor. Perhaps the multiplicity of these qualities and their strange intertwining in his personality is what is reflected in these short stories that we present today to the Arab reader. Here, we present five short stories considered among the most famous written by Fernando Pessoa in this literary genre, in addition to five narrative texts that the author considers "meaningful tales." We chose these texts because they represent different story forms and complete texts, most scholars of Fernando Pessoa's works agree on their final form and literary and artistic value.