ABSTRACT
Fernando Pessoa and Mario de Sa-Carneiro greatly admired Camilo Pessanha. In a letter that is undated, but must have been written in 1915, Pessoa asks Pessanha to send poems for inclusion in the third issue of the literary journal Orpheu, which was due to come out in October that year. If Pessoa is in debt to Pascoaes in this poem, Mario de Sa-Carneiro interprets and pays tribute to paulismo in his poem '16', dating from May 1914 and published the following year, in the first issue of Orpheu. There is considerable irony in the fact that the Orpheu Generation inherited such strong models of subjecthood from the eighteenth century, yet went on to create fragmented subjects. The proposal that the subject is non-existent, which is commonly ascribed to the Orpheu Generation, can be seen to begin in the experimental discourse of Pessanha.
