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A selfdeprecating reflection on the sheer distance between the loftiness of his feelings and the humdrum reality of his life, the book of disquiet is a classic of existentialist literature. The book of disquietude by bernardo soares, assistant bookkeeper in the city of lisbon aspects of portugal. Disquiet and solitude in fernando pessoa articles house. Disquiet refers to a feeling of anxiety, and this story has plenty of unease for both its narrator and readers. Nov 30, 2006 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. The book of disquietude is the factless autobiography of bernardo soares, one of the 72 literary personae with which portugals greatest poet fernando pessoa 18881935 created the theater of himself.
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Fernando pessoa biography childhood, life achievements. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Edited and translated into portuguese by luisa freire. Book of disquietude, the syracuse university press. When portuguese writer fernando pessoa 1888 1935 passed away, he left a trunk containing some 25,426 items a vast collection of poems, fragments, letters, journals. The book of disquietude by fernando pessoa fictiondb. He also wrote in and translated from english and french. As it now stands, the largest collection of pessoas posthumous english poems written under his own name96 of them, in factwas published in portugal, by. Fernando pessoa, one of the founders of modernism, was born in lisbon in 1888. Dec 24, 2015 published for the first time some fifty years after his death, this unique collection of short, aphoristic paragraphs comprises the autobiography of bernardo soares, one of pessoa s alternate.
The book of disquiet is a diary, but of a self that is several and precarious, and always more potential than actual. Anglomaniac, myopic, courteous, evasive, dressed darkly, reticent and agreeable, a cosmopolitan who preaches nationalism, solemn investigator of futile things, humorist who never smiles but chills our blood, inventor of other poets and destroyer of himself, author of paradoxes as clear as water and, as water, dizzying. The book of disquietude, by fernando pessoa, trans. Fernando pessoa, edited by jeronimo pizarro, trans. In lisbon there are a few restaurants or eating houses located above decentlooking taverns, places with the heavy, domestic look of restaurants in towns far from any rail line. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa, translated by margaret jull costa.
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Bernardo soars, pessoas personality who wrote the book, is. He takes a simple gesture, a familiar place and transforms it magically into something more. Fernando pessoa, one of the greatest portuguese poets, whose modernist work gave portuguese literature european significance. Buy book of disquietude by fernando pessoa 9781857543018 from boomerang books, australias online independent bookstore. P ortuguese poet fernando pessoa 18881935 was the most prominent modernist literary figure in 20th century portugal, where he was associated with avantgarde literary circles, magazines, and small press publications in his poetry, pessoa announced modernist themes. By bernardo soares, assistant bookkeeper in the city of lisbon. Jun 02, 2001 the book of disquiet fernando pessoa, trans. Bernardo soars, pessoas personality who wrote the book, is extreme and eccentric.
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Apicapic in the book of disquiet, bernardo soares, an assistant bookkeeper in a lisbon fabrics. Published posthumously, the book of disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a factless autobiography. The book of disquietude by bernardo soares, assistant. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa, paperback. First published in 1982, this is the factless autobiography of bernardo soares, one of the 72. If ever there was a writer in flight from his name, it was fernando pessoa. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices. Follow fernando pessoa and explore their bibliography from s fernando pessoa author page. It was to bernardo soares that pessoa ascribed his book of disquiet, first made available in english in a briefer version by richard zenith in 1991.
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This essay, fernando pessoa s the book of disquiet. He is distinguished as the most momentous literary figure of the 20th century who played a major role in the development of modernism in his country. Illustration by riccardo vecchio if ever there was a writer in flight from his name, it was fernando pessoa. P ortuguese poet fernando pessoa 18881935 was the most prominent modernist literary figure in 20th century portugal, where he was associated with avantgarde literary circles, magazines, and small press publications. Fernando pessoa s the book of disquiet is aptly titled. Its floating boundaries expand and contract, lazily animated by the horror of making our soul a fact. The book of disquiet is the portuguese modernist master fernando pessoas. For whatever reason, modernism was fascinated by masks, personae, disguises. Download book the book of disquiet by fernando pessoa.
A selfdeprecating 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. Its made up of a few personal objects and portraits by almada negreiros and julio pomar, as well as a library with books about the writer and subjects related to him. An autobiography or diary containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions. The narrator, perhaps a standin for pessoa himself, is clearly a distant literary relative of shakespeares hamlet or eliots prufrock. Buy book of disquietude book online at low prices in india. The circular text returns again and again to a protagonist desperate to find out who he is.
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