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Im always speaking banally to someone, with a contrived smile on my face. Published posthumously, the book of disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a factless autobiography. Picking up on soaress wry selfdescription, cousineau fills a largely missing dimension in the existing anglophone criticism and. At times im inexplicably hypnotized by senhor vasques. In his clearly written, welldocumented book, cousineau analyzes pessoas major prose workthe unfinished, unordered, and unwritten book of disquiet, attributed to heteronym bernardo soares, the selfconfessed character of an unwritten novel. 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. An autobiography or diary containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions. Pessoas rapid prose, snatched in flight and rhe book oe. The book of disquiet penguin classics fernando pessoa. When pessoa died, he left behind a trunk filled with disorderly scraps of unpublished poems and unfinished works, among which was the book of disquiet. Fernando pessoa quotes author of the book of disquiet. Scribd is the worlds largest social reading and publishing site. The portuguese author attributed his work to literary alter egos that he called heteronyms, each of which had a fully developed identity. Description download fernando pessoa the book of disquiet free in pdf format.
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