The Book of Disquiet
"Readers with a particular interest in modernism will find this work indispensable."—Publishers Weekly"Pessoa's amazing personality is as beguiling and mysterious as his unique poetic output."—William BoydA self-deprecating reflection on the sheer distance between the loftiness of feelings and...
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"Readers with a particular interest in modernism will find this work indispensable."—Publishers Weekly"Pessoa's amazing personality is as beguiling and mysterious as his unique poetic output."—William BoydA self-deprecating reflection on the sheer distance between the loftiness of feelings and the humdrum reality of life, The Book of Disquiet is a classic of existentialist literature.Fernando Pessoa, one of the founders of modernism, was born in Lisbon in 1888. Most of Pessoa's writing was not published during his lifetime: The Book of Disquiet was first published in Portugal in 1982.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781846687358 (1846687357)
Publish date: January 18th 2011
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Pages no: 262
Edition language: English
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.
Pod wpływem tej ksiązki znalazłem się w Lizbonie i wypiłem kawę w towarzystwie Pessoi oczywiście w restauracji Brasieira
10 years ago
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