Mario fernando pessoa book of disquietude

Preface by fernando pessoa, a factless autobiography and a disquiet an thology. I started the book of disquiet many years ago and still havent finished. The book of disquiet is one of the most insightful books a person can read, but only if one has imagination and an ability to let go. The book of disquiet is a collection of epiphanic journal or diary prose kept by pessoa and found decades after his death. The book of disquiet is the portuguese modernist master fernando pessoas. Fernando antonio nogueira pessoa was a poet and writer. Out of these fragments, pessoas project for a work called livro do desassossego once translated as the book of disquietude, now as the. This almostautobiographical story tells of the sombre majesty of splendours no one knows in the very private life of its hero and offers. Illustration by riccardo vecchio if ever there was a writer in flight from his name, it was fernando pessoa. The book of disquiet also translated as the book of disquietude has a format somewhat like a journal or diary and is also a collection of vignettes and reflections. By bernardo soares, assistant bookkeeper in the city of lisbon 4 copy quote wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world. Published posthumously, the book of disquiet is a fragmentary. The prose is truly some of the most gorgeous musings about everyday life and existence that any reader could ever find.

Fernando pessoa author of the book of disquiet goodreads. The book of disquiet was found, in fragments, only after pessoa s death. Fernando pessoa the book of disquiet edited and translated by richard zenith. The book of disquiet is a work by the portuguese author fernando pessoa 1888 1935. Somehow im ok with that, despite the fact that i think. 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. The book of disquietude by fernando pessoa fictiondb. The statement is possible since pessoa, whose name means person in portuguese, had three alter egos who wrote in styles completely different from his own. First published in 1982, this is the factless autobiography of bernardo soares, one of the 72 literary personae or heteronyms with which fernando pessoa created the theatre of his absence. Fernando pessoas life divides neatly into three periods.

To say that fernando pessoa wrote the book of disquiet is disingenuous. He also wrote in and translated from english and french. 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. When he died in 1935, pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable pages that make up his posthumous masterpiece, the book of disquiet, an astonishing work that, in george steiners words, gives to lisbon the haunting spell of joyces dublin or kafkas prague. Text 152 fernando antonio nogueira pessoa was born in lisbon in 1888. Rediscovering fernando pessoas the book of disquiet the millions.

Bernardo soars, pessoas personality who wrote the book, is. Published posthumously, the book of disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a factless autobiography. November 30, 1935 was a portuguese poet, writer, a literary critic and translator. Book of disquiet has been a privilege, a pleasure and a challenge. The book of disquiet manuscript, as well as most of pessoas work, was found in a trunk after his death he hardly published anything while alive. It is sometimes said that the four greatest portuguese poets of modern times are fernando pessoa.

The complete edition pessoa, fernando, pizarro, jeronimo, costa, margaret jull on. And the laughter of my adult life passing by hurts me like the flames of matches that someone lights by striking them on the delicate tissue of my heart. The circular text returns again and again to a protagonist desperate to find out who he is. Google map location syracuse, new york 2445290 315. Book of disquietude by fernando pessoa, richard zenith. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa if you read this, you need to know what you are signing up for, so, below, ill let pessoa speak for himself. Its a series of vignettes, random thoughts and meditations all written between 19 and 1935. Buy book of disquietude book online at best prices in india on. By bernardo soares, assistant bookkeeper in the city of lisbon. Buy book of disquietude book online at low prices in india.