Os papéis de Fernando Pessoa e a controvérsia com os seus herdeiros sobre o destino a dar aos cerca de 2700 inéditos chamou a atenção do New York Times que desenvolve o tema em 2 páginas (web):
“The latest brouhaha involving cultural property is unfolding here — and not, for a change, over stolen vases or precious war booty, but a poet’s correspondence. As usual, it’s a window onto a nation’s character. The elderly heirs of Fernando Pessoa, the exalted Portuguese writer, plan this fall to auction Pessoa’s correspondence with Aleister Crowley, the early-20th-century British mystic, mountaineer, writer and practitioner of black magic. Portugal’s culture minister is among those who have shown distress in recent days about the letters’ leaving the country.
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Nationalism is on the rise in Europe. The vast majority of Pessoa’s papers belong to the National Library; the remainder, some 2,700, to the heirs. In this case the originals contain all sorts of scribbled notes and other unrecorded details that even good photocopies might miss. Most Portuguese, truth be told, couldn’t care less about what happens to Pessoa’s papers, but he is still the most remarkable sort of national treasure. [...]" Ler na íntegra
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