This talk attempts to draw a comparison between Fernando Pessoa and Mário de Andrade on the way they think the typewriter. In other words, I want to see how they react to what I refer as the new conditions of the hand in the era of the typewriter. To this end, I will review and compare their reflections on this machine in different texts as poems, fictions and letters.

Prof Juan Cristóbal Castro received a PhD in Spanish and Latin American (Hispanic) Literatures from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Among others, he has published two books: Alfabeto del caos: crítica y ficción en Paul Valéry y Jorge Luis Borges (2009), and recently Idiomas espectrales: lenguas imagi narias en la literatura latinoamericana (2016).