Livro do desassossego the book of disquiet, fernando pessoa the book of disquiet is a work by the portuguese author fernando pessoa 18881935. Im always out in the evenings doing something, the purpose of which eludes me. Published posthumously, the book of disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a factless autobiography. For its entire four hundred plus pages it offers a philosophy of a melancholic life, a philosophy of dreaming, and a philosophy of art. Fernando pessoa e julio pomar ricardo reis, portugiesisch. Fernando pessoa 18881935 was born in lisbon and brought up in durban, south africa. The big buildings of cities lock up the view, they hide the horizon, pulling our gaze far away.
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 is one such modern masterpiece that i read last week. In the cities life is smaller than here in my house on top of this hill. Destroy unconscious blockages and negativity, 396hz solfeggio, binaural beats duration. Fernando pessoa, one of the founders of modernism, was born in lisbon in 1888. The narrator, perhaps a standin for pessoa himself, is clearly a distant literary relative of shakespeares hamlet or eliots prufrock.
Imagination, reality and the pleasure of masking and dreaming rodica grigore1 the portuguese writer fernando pessoa complicates the idea of fictionality, by underscoring the fact that the personality of soares the fictional author of the book of disquiet is neither his own nor com. An englishly portuguese, endlessly multiple poet duration. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Fernando antonio nogueira pessoa was a portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa, paperback. A prolific writer, ascribing his work to a variety of personas or heteronyms, pessoa published little in his lifetime and supported himself by working as a commercial translator. The partially examined life recommended for you 12. Fernando pessoa author of the book of disquiet goodreads. Music for body and spirit meditation music recommended for you. When he died in 1935, pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable pages that make up his posthumous masterpiece, the book of disquiet, an astonishing work that, in george steiners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.
Fernando pessoa vida e obra by daniela filipe on prezi. Vii from my village i see as much of the universe as can be seen from the earth, and so my village is as large as any town, for i am the size of what i see and not the size of my height. The book of disquiet, fernando pessoa livro bertrand. Fernando pessoa tour audio documentary series about the life and legacy of. Fernando pessoa quotes author of the book of disquiet. The publication was credited to bernardo soares, one of the authors alternate writing names, which he called semiheteronyms, and had a preface attributed to fernando pessoa, another alternate writing name or orthonym. The book of disquiet was found, in fragments, only after pessoa s death. The book of disquiet is a work by the portuguese author fernando pessoa. Fernando pessoa and the book of disquiet others can write better, and truer, things about fernando pessoa than i can, but the salient facts for these purposes are that pessoa 18881935 was a portuguese writer who published very little during his lifetime. The book of disquiet penguin modern classics ebook. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the us or from the uk, depending on stock availability. The authors description of a consciousness experiencing what we call life is genius. 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.
The book is an aggregation of disparate diary entries that are abstract, dense, and at times, eccentric. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa book chat duration. Tullio pericoli fernando pessoa more ricardo reis, figur, zeichnungen, kunst. A modernist masterwork that has now taken on a similar iconic status to ulysses, the trial or in search of lost time, fernando pessoas the book of disquiet is edited and translated with an introduction by richard zenith in penguin modern classics.
But no, shes abstract, is a bird, of sound in the air of air soaring, and her soul sings unencumbered, because the songs what makes her sing. The transformation book provides significant insight. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Fernando pessoa the book of disquiet serpents tail classics jetzt kaufen. Apicapic in the book of disquiet, bernardo soares, an assistant bookkeeper in a lisbon fabrics firm, records impressions he doesnt expect to see. Im always speaking banally to someone, with a contrived smile on my face. 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. Fernando pessoa, in full fernando antonio nogueira pessoa, born june, 1888, lisbon, port. Adelia prado fala sobre sua obra, feminismo e o momento politico do brasil 2018 duration. Fernando pessoas the book of disquiet is aptly titled. Illustration by riccardo vecchio if ever there was a writer in flight from his name, it was fernando pessoa.
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