The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology. and horoscope. When he died in 1935, Pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable pages that make up his posthumous masterp...
Publish Date
2002
December 31
First Published in 1982
Goodreads rating
4.44
ISBN
9780811226936
Recommendations
6
Recommendations
This is a book of ideas. It’s not a book about the internet. It was written much earlier, in the 20th century, and written in Portuguese. It’s really a book of meditations. It’s very philosophical. It applies to the internet in that the main point is how much joy you can take in small things and small changes and the true drama of life can be extraordinarily minute in scale, and this, I think, gets at the idea that the internet and the stories we follow are, to a lot of us, extremely important and exciting and meaningful, though really they are just a few changes of characters on a little screen somewhere. – source
Mar 04, 2020
Some of my own favorite weird/strange/experimental/lingering-afterglow/niche novels:
Out (Natsuo Kirino)
Pym (Mat Johnson)
The Book of Disquiet (Pessoa)
Under the Skin (Faber)
The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P (Rieko Matsuura)
The Famished Road (Ben Okri)
Delicious Foods (Hannaham) – sourceFeb 17, 2021
@Sime0nStylites @scrapegroat @TomChivers That's such a great book. Pessoa was properly bonkers. – source