777 fernando pessoa the book of disquiet audiobook

As for guedes, pessoa opens, this book is not by him, it is him. Quotes from the book of disquiet by fernando pessoa. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa professional moron. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices. 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. It is written by character senhor soares, who is assumed to be an alter ego for pessoa.

Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Its barely a novel, in fact, and more a vast, endlessly intelligent selection of thoughts based on everyones favourite hobby existing. The book of disquiet serpents tail classics by pessoa, fernando and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. It is signed under the semiheteronym bernando soares. Ive been drawn to existentialism which i understand to be the recognition that life lacks meaning, rendering the human condition a function of mere existence since reading sartre. Book of disquiet reveals a reclusive authors soul author fernando pessoa may have been a loner who lived most of his life in a single room in. At the end of this audiobook, there is a note about the author and the many choices of names he adopted. Compiled by the translator richard zenith, fernando pessoas the book of disquiet is a fulgent tribute to the imagination of man.

Fernando pessoa, one of the greatest portuguese poets, whose modernist work gave portuguese literature european significance. 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. Reading the book of disquiet by fernando pessoa as it appeared on the 2002 world librarys greatest books of all time list. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa the book of disquietude or the book of disquiet livro do desassossego in portuguese, published posthumously, is one of the greatest works by fernando pessoa. Now, for the first time the texts are presented chronologically, in a complete english edition by master translator. There are flashes of sly humour, too, moments when the book of disquiet reads like an existential diary of a nobody. Fernando pessoas the book of disquiet is aptly titled. If all this sounds rather vague then that is because pessoa wished it so. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa, paperback. Fernando pessoa audio books, best sellers, author bio. Fernando pessoa books list of books by author fernando. The book of disquiet is a collection of aphoristic prosepoetry musings on dreams, solitude. 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 the book of disquiet, made up of hundreds of short texts that constitute a sort. I failed life even before i had lived it, because even as i dreamed it, i failed to see its. The book of disquiet is a diary, but of a self that is several and precarious, and always more potential than actual. An assembly of sometimes linked fragments, it is a mesmerising, haunting novel without parallel in any other culture. The book of disquiet penguin classics pessoa, fernando, zenith, richard, zenith, richard on. The book is an aggregation of disparate diary entries that are abstract, dense, and at times, eccentric. This kind of solipsism was a great temptation for pessoa, as the book of disquiet reveals. Buy the book of disquiet penguin modern classics new ed by pessoa, fernando, zenith, richard isbn. We personally assess every books quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures. Disquiet refers to a feeling of anxiety, and this story has plenty of unease for both its narrator and readers.

It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is in the spirit that it is experienced fernando pessoa. To read and then contemplate him is to be lifted a little bit above the earth in a floating bubble. From what i understand this book is a collection of prose snippets from over 40 years that were compiled after the portuguese poets death. The first installation of the book of disquiet which includes the preface and notes 15 well, the first of what will likely be hundreds of installments. While portuguese author fernando pessoa is internationally now known mostly for his masterpiece the book of disquiet, he was also an outstanding poet. Fernando antonio nogueira pessoa was a poet and writer. We deliver the joy of reading in 100% recycled packaging with free standard shipping on u. When i went to college for english and creative writing, i had never heard of this book.

Credited to pessoas alter ego, bernardo soares, who chronicles his contemplations in this socalled factless autobiography, the work is a journey of one mans soul and, by extension, of all. 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. Assembled from notes and jottings left unpublished at the time of the authors death, the book of disquiet is a collection of aphoristic prosepoetry musings on dreams, solitude, time and memory. Fernando pessoa 18881935 was born in lisbon and brought up in durban, south africa. The chevalier of disquiet by max nelson the new york. Livro do desassossego the book of disquiet, fernando pessoa the book of disquiet is a work by the portuguese author fernando pessoa 18881935. 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 by fernando pessoa librarything. Now, for the first time the texts are presented chronologically, in a complete. The material that he marked for inclusion in the book was. Fernando pessoa describes his work the book of disquiet as being an autobiography lacking facts.

A prolific writer, ascribing his work to a variety of personas or heteronyms, pessoa published little in his lifetime and supported. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa is one such modern masterpiece that i read last week. 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 disquiet is one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. The book of disquiet was left in a trunk which might never have been opened. Fernando pessoa will be an unknown name to many literary fans and, furthermore, the book of disquiet is untraditional to the extreme. His father had died of tuberculosis the previous year. The book of disquiet is the portuguese modernist master fernando pessoas greatest literary achievement. It is in the book of disquiettranslated, beautifully, by margaret jull costathat pessoa found himself most truly. The book of disquiet penguin modern classics ebook. Discover more authors youll love listening to on audible. Today, during one of those periods of daydreaming which, though devoid of either purpose or dignity, still constitute the greater part of the spiritual substance of my life, i imagined myself free forever of rua dos douradores, of my boss vasques, of. He would soon leave his birthplace of lisbon for colonial durban, where his new stepfather was the.

Browse fernando pessoa s bestselling audiobooks and newest titles. The uniqueness of this book makes it next to impossible to suggest other reading alternatives, but certainly breakfast with socrates by robert rowland smith will provide more food for thought for the philosophically contemplative mind. Its floating boundaries expand and contract, lazily animated by the horror of making our soul a fact. Written over the course of fernando pessoas life, it was first published in 1982, pieced together from the thousands of individual manuscript pages left behind by pessoa after his death in 1935. It is sometimes said that the four greatest portuguese poets of modern times are fernando pessoa. Sitting at his desk, bernardo soares imagined himself free forever of rua dos douradores, of his boss vasques, of moreira the bookkeeper, of all the other employees, the errand boy, the post boy, even the cat. Pessoa was mostly a poet and the book of disquiet can be read, if you wish, as a series of notes for poems as yet unwritten. An autobiography or diary containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions. Pessoas book does give few concrete facts about the writer or the world of the writer. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa book chat duration. The book of disquiet, written by fernando pessoa, a portuguese poet, is considered an early classic of existential writing.