/lit/ - Literature

Are you gay?

>>19309104
Pessoa and Melville weren’t gay.

>>19309148
>Pessoa and Melville

>>19309104
>W*men
kys
>>19309148
lol

>>19309148
Don't tell him

>>19309104
All my favorite writers are, uh...

>>19309167
>>19309172
w-what

>>19309257
…french?

>>19309274
Massive pedos.

All my favorite writers have autism.

>>19309291
Kill yourself

>>19309288
Then yeah french

>>19309104
Pessoa was gay? Or is that from the biography written by some faggot?

>>19309104
>>19309257
Who are they
Wish people wouldnt post just pictures of people who worked in a written medium, theres really no reason to know how they looked

>>19309379
Lurk more

>>19309104
Pessoa wasn't gay.
Where the hell has this myth come from?

>>19309167
>>19309183
They were not.
I mean, don't know about Melville, but I am a Portuguese speaker and have read the love letters between Pessoa and Ophelia, including all the sexual undertones. The sexual and erotic imagery in his poems is heterosexual, from Caeiro's and Reis's love poems to the more charged sexual descriptions of Álvaro de Campos (something something little girls in staircases).
Don't know why Anglos invent this myth.
Another one is the myth that Dante was an incel virgin. Dante was married and had three kids, one of whom wrote a treatise on the Commedia. There's no concrete evidence that Beatrice was real, it's just some story people tell because it looks cool, derived, I think, from Boccaccio, a man who was known for inventing stories, to say the least. In my old (1920's) edition of the Commedia, a very learned Italian professor goes through great pangs to prove that Beatrice was a mere allegory for theology (the beatific science).
What's the problem with Anglos?

>>19309470
>>19309535
Pessoa writes about homoeroticism a lot particularly in his poem Antinous. Heterosexual and homosexual feelings are not mutually exclusive

>>19309470
I think it's because many of his friends were indeed gay. In fact, Pessoa himself translated Antonio Botto's homoerotic poems into English.

>>19309535
>Don't know why Anglos invent this myth.
In order to emasculate one of Portugal's greats. Anglos are very Jewish and they always try to destroy the competition.

>>19309104
No such thing as gay writers, gay literature or even gay people. The only true gay thing on this earth that is real is gay sex.

>>19309566
Yes. Since everybody knows immensely relevant Portugal is Britain's mightest rival.

>>19309355
Yeah, but those are exceptions. Meanwhile, you have all the poems of Ricardo Reis to Lídia, that whole section in Alberto Caeiro's poems...
Maybe he was bisexual, but definitely not gay. I really don't think writing about Antinous in that way, in a poem, means that a person is gay.
Pessoa's only lover, as far as I know, was Ophelia.

But James feeded and sneeded his sister

>>19309581
They want to undermine others, regardless of how 'powerful' they are. Pay attention to what they do.

>>19309104
All my favorite writers are women.

>>19309584
That was William

>>19309535
>>19309566
Judeo-Americans aren't Anglo.

>>19309104
anon..

>>19309582
B-but he's gay because... he just is, okay? The Anglo biographer (((Richard Zenith))) said so!

>>19309566
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>>19309613
>>19309634
People from shithole countries are so insecure lmao

>>19309117
You're asking OP?

>People from shithole countries are so insecure lmao

>>19309117
No

>>19309656
I'm Australian

>>19309672
So? Australia is a shithole.

>>19309672
Budget America

bump

>>19309566
England has produced dozens of great poets. No one ever thinks about Pessoa here.

>>19309104
My favorite writer will ass fuck you with a strap on if you tell me to shut up one more time, bitch.

>>19310324
Dozens of good and decent poets, sure. Great poets? Can be counted on one hand.

>having bishop as a top poet
stop reading gay shit bro

>>19311455
She is good

>>19309104
Duude, they are not just gay, they are bisexual.