The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
"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 Boyd
A 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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Written sooooo beautiful and touching. I really had the feeling I was witnessing the downfall of Soares (Pessoa). It was written and composed in such an interesting way. With my bookclub we talked about a single paragraphs for hours.
"I am for the most part, the very prose that I write. I shape myself in periods and paragraphs, I punctuate myself and in the unleashed chain of images, I make myself king, as children do, with a crown made of newspaper or, in finding rhythms in mere strings of words, I garland myself, as madman do, with dried flowers that in my dreams still live."
"I am for the most part, the very prose that I write. I shape myself in periods and paragraphs, I punctuate myself and in the unleashed chain of images, I make myself king, as children do, with a crown made of newspaper or, in finding rhythms in mere strings of words, I garland myself, as madman do, with dried flowers that in my dreams still live."
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