Fernando Pessoa
Birth date: June 13, 1888
Died: November 30, 1935
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DNF. God, this was awful. I wanted to punch that hateful little shit of a narrator/main character/Pessoa on the nose within the first ten pages of the book. I get that the cynicism is an expression of the guy's struggle to find something to value in his life, but that doesn't make him a metapho...
Πρόκειται για σκόρπιες σκέψεις που γράφτηκαν από το 1912 ως το 1935, τη χρονιά θανάτου του Pessoa, με ημερολογιακή μορφή και συνειρμική δομή, που διακρίνεται τόσο για τη έλλειψη πλοκής και μύθου, όσο για την αποσπασματικότητά της. Ιδωμένο με αντικειμενική σκοπιά, το συγκεκριμένο "μυθιστόρημα" είναι ...
Still in progress: I've been reading this off and on for over a year. Filled with paradoxes, synesthesia, and threads of thought that are sometimes gossamer, I take back what I said earlier. This is one of the densest books I've ever read.
I felt sad when it ended, but glad I finished it. This is a lovely book for exposing one's interior, but I feel that almost anyone thoughtful enough could have written it. It is a book for all "like minds" to enjoy being friends with. And to my dismay there was really nothing new here under the sun...
Though respected by many and thought by Harold Bloom to be "Whitman reborn", Pessoa leaves me cold and unfeeling. His poems are certainly easy to read and soft to the eye, but my indifference to his work has never faltered. It is proof positive to me at least that all of us are affected differently,...
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