Publication of my essay in The Punch Magazine
My essay The Exile of Pessoa & Camus was published in The Punch Magazine in May 2019 - and here is the link. Poet and philosopher Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) describes himself as someone who is an “exile from the country of which he had always considered himself a citizen…” Is it apposite to associate exile with someone who — apart from spending nine years in South Africa during his youth — essentially never stirred out of his native Portugal? This essay examines this question by comparing Pessoa to another famous exile, Albert Camus.