The thing that consistently irritated me was the reader's (Mr. Had I not already read authors like Ligotti, Cioran, Thacker etc, I do think this would serve as an interesting introductory text to the apparent contrivance of 'every day life'. I adore the beautifully written, brutal honesty that this book contains it's a refreshing world view compared to the norm that many would have us believe. I have not finished this book, but am a fair way through it, so think it is a good time to comment. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.īeautifully written honesty, let down by reader. Soares has no ambition, nor has he any friends he is plagued with disquiet, and only imagination and dreams can conquer it.Ĭompiled by the translator Richard Zenith, Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet is a fulgent tribute to the imagination of man. Though his outward life as an assistant bookkeeper in downtown Lisbon is a humdrum affair, Soares lives a rich and varied existence within the contours of his own mind, where he can be and do anything. Credited to Pessoa’s alter ego, Bernardo Soares, who chronicles his contemplations in this so-called 'factless' autobiography, the work is a journey of one man’s soul and, by extension, of all human souls that allow their minds and hearts to roam far and free. Assembled from notes and jottings left unpublished at the time of the author’s death, The Book of Disquiet is a collection of aphoristic prose-poetry musings on dreams, solitude, time and memory.

The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa