false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170304156m/45974.jpg 45974 29 Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. The Portuguese author attributed his work to literary alter egos that he called "heteronyms," each of which had a fully developed identity. When Pessoa died, he left behind a trunk filled with disorderly scraps of unpublished poems and unfinished works, among which was <i>The Book of Disquiet</i>. 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 selves. Part intimate diary, part prose poetry, part descriptive narrative, captivatingly translated by Richard Zenith, <i>The Book of Disquiet</i> is one of the greatest works of the twentieth century. <br><br> Edited and Translated with an Introduction by Richard Zenith 983806 1983 The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics) total:840|5:583|4:176|3:66|2:12|1:3| 840 3844 1660 135 4 9 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 16:37:38 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 08 21:24:11 -0800 2008 1 As a people, we almost lost an invaluable review of Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet with the unheralded demise of reviewer ‘Chris’. His decision to end his life by firing himself from a canon thro...more...]]> 5 4 false false Wed May 23 07:51:11 -0700 2007 Wed May 23 08:00:01 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 4 false false Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 13:23:53 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 12:58:53 -0700 2009 The Book of Disquiet, was purportedly written by “Bernardo Soares,” each of his h...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Mar 03 09:51:57 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 09:52:44 -0800 2009
I am free and lost.
I feel. I have fever, chills. I am myself.


In Pessoa I have made a lifelong friend. Rarely do I find an author who speaks to my wild adoration of words as well as my spiritual hunger. The word "...more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 13:06:06 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 13:16:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 1 false false Thu Dec 27 09:10:39 -0800 2007 Sun Jul 27 18:05:37 -0700 2008 The dossier includes voluminous correspondence with Crowley, and hundreds of pages of an unfinished novel about Crowley's faked suicide. The work is called Boca do Inferno, (Hell's Mouth) after a rocky inl...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Thu Nov 22 20:57:46 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 22 23:27:40 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Fri Jun 15 00:15:45 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 23 10:22:40 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri May 18 22:29:15 -0700 2007 Fri May 18 22:36:02 -0700 2007
"I'm handed faith like a sealed package on a strange-looking pl...more...]]> 0 1 false false Tue Jul 28 12:02:59 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 12:25:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue May 22 21:57:03 -0700 2007 Sun May 27 08:20:55 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Sep 27 16:22:10 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 16:21:15 -0700 2009 O livro d...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 14:11:46 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 13:17:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Mar 27 21:42:18 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 21:25:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Nov 28 18:03:12 -0800 2008 Sat Apr 04 07:58:43 -0700 2009
"On the face of it, the monotony of ordinary lives is horrifying. In this simple restaurant where I'm eating lunch, I look at the figure of the cook behind the counter and at the old waiter, near my table, who serves me and who I believ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Sun Jan 20 12:22:36 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 20 12:23:14 -0800 2008 Book of Disquiet is probably best read in bits and pieces. In fact, the story behind it (included in the introduction to this edition and the book description here on Goodreads) shows that reading through this book ra...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Aug 28 11:27:35 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 28 11:33:15 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Aug 12 02:55:17 -0700 2007 Thu Mar 19 08:53:11 -0700 2009 Walt Whitman weren't so optimistic, so full of love for all things and all people, he would have written The Book of Disquiet.

Instead, the book was written by Fernando Pessoa, who intended the book to be what he calls a "factless biography". I had really high hopes for this ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 08:34:43 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 10 11:48:54 -0700 2008 other days, holding them up makes my arms tired.
so i put the giant quotation marks down.


some days, i read:
"one day soares noticed that there is absurdity. so he says...more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Apr 25 10:18:46 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 25 10:18:46 -0700 2007 For starters, you can easily put this book down, forget
about it, concentrate your efforts on something else and come back to it and can start off right where you left it.
There isn't exactly a "plot" that needs to be followed, ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=45974