CHAPTER 2 Fernando Pessoa: Not One but Multiple isms Jeronimo Pizarro

Orpheu started out with texts of a more decadent and post-symbolist tendency and a propensity for exile, but quickly took on a more challenging, vanguardist orientation. The covers of the only two numbers of the magazine illustrate very well the change of direction, and the cover of the second may bring to mind the first number of Blast, the publication dedicated to English vorticism.

[One characteristic of Orpheu (often quite hilarious) was to go through an interminable series of isms. All the more so because Orpheu was where literature met painting, each bringing their own interminable series of isms [...] While the guia only had one ism, saudosism, Orpheu had three isms, created by Fernando Pessoa: paulism, intersectionism, sensationism, as well as the isms that were already commonly accepted and those that had been newly coined.] Jos de Almada Negreiro

Trata-se de uma revista de arte mensal, sada em Lisboa em Outubro de 1924 e chega aos cinco nmeros, com direco de Fernando Pessoa e direco artstica de Ruy Vaz. O penltimo nmero de Athena sai em Janeiro de 1925, e o ltimo, apesar de datado de Fevereiro, s sai de facto em Junho, o que se pode dever ao falecimento da morte da me do poeta em 17 de Maro.

Revista de Comercio e Contabilidade Director: Francisco Caetano Dias Lisboa, N. 1, 25 de Janeiro de 1926 Foram publicados seis nmeros, que incluram colaborao vria de Fernando Pessoa. A revista contou ainda com outros colaboradores, como Francisco Caetano Dias, Firmo Martins e Jaime Pereira de Lacerda. Neste primeiro nmero Pessoa colaborou com um total de 17 textos.