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Title: The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, Alfred Mac Adam, Alfred J. Mac Adam ISBN: 1-878972-27-8 Publisher: Exact Change Pub. Date: December, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.91 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A beautifully fine and unique book
Comment: Pessoa was a true acrobat of the imagination. The Book of Disquiet is a collection of epiphanic journal or diary prose kept by Pessoa and found decades after his death. The prose is truly some of the most gorgeous musings about everyday life and existence that any reader could ever find. The poet's world is laid out exquisitly and paradoxically for the entire benefit of those who read.I can't say I've ever found such beauty in the pages of a book before. If you like literature albeit simple or complex this book is something that you will immediately cherish for a very long time.
Rating: 5
Summary: Encontro Breve com Pessoa-Brief Encounter with Pessoa
Comment: What, in all sincerity, can be said of Fernando Pessoa's Book of Disquiet? The book presents us, as with any superb literary work, with a problem of translation. That is, of translating into value (good, bad, average) an expressive incoherence (the aphoristic style) that is manifested in the heteronyms that Pessoa was, in the dispersed identities, and in the fragmentary incursions into the absurd(real) that pervade the book and brings forth the 'disquiet-ness'. 'Conventional' writers need a 'plot'(could be a subject-person, an event etc) as an anchor in which to secure coherence and from which meaning is derived. Pessoa's genius (like Kafka, Beckett, Lawrence, Blanchot) lies in his deliberate abandonment of (monotonous)anchors and his intrepid embrace of diversity(in the most general sense imaginable) and immanence(one feels 'floating' within life). This author will, I am certain, be recognised as one of the greatest European literary genius.
Rating: 5
Summary: The beauty of this novel
Comment: Poetry often speaks to us; we see something in it, something recognizable, and it's like we are shown a piece of ourselves that had been hidden for a lifetime before. Finding Pessoa's *Book of Disquiet* was like finding a piece of myself. In the pages of this poetic novel you will find honesty, often self-disparaging, and you will find beauty in the smallest observation. However, be forewarned, this is not a book that should be picked up with the idea of light reading in mind. In fact, you may find that you have to put it down, repeatedly, to get away from it, to think, but you will always, always come back to it. Keep it close to hand.
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Title: Fernando Pessoa & Co: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith ISBN: 0802136273 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Poems of Fernando Pessoa by Fernando Pessoa, Edwin Honig, Susan M. Brown ISBN: 0872863425 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Always Astonished: Selected Prose by Fernando Pessoa, Edwin Honig, Fernando Pessoa ISBN: 0872862283 Publisher: Subterranean Co Pub. Date: December, 1988 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics) by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith ISBN: 0141183047 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 26 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive by Fernando Pessoa ISBN: 1878972405 Publisher: Exact Change Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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