Pessoa’s editorial projects and publications: the digital edition as a multiple form of textual criticism

A digital edition of Fernando Pessoa’s editorial projects and publications is being established through a collaboration between scholars from the Institute of Literature and Tradition (IELT) of the New University of Lisbon and the Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH) of the University of Cologne. The edition focuses on the contrast between the potential character of Pessoa’s numerous lists of editorial projects and his actual publications in lifetime. The digital format allows for a combination of different editorial procedures, proposing a new form of a multiple textual criticism within the editing of Pessoa’s work, where coexistent forms of transcription are applied together with genetic and semantic criticism.