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The Book of Disquiet BY Fernando Pessoa Ed. and tr. by Richard Zenith Penguin, $15.00 Fernando Pessoa was a modernist Portuguese poet who wrote under a dozen different names. They were less pseudonyms than alternative existences, one of which, Bernardo Soares, was primarily responsible for The Book of Disquiet, a collection of discrete but related prose fragments that add up to a diary of absolute interiority. There are no perceptions in this book that are not self-perceptions, and there are no selfperceptions free of contempt. This makes for a moral climate that is a bit airless and relentless, but this is a book you dip in and out of rather than read straight through. The prose and observations are in places as good as you'll find anywhere, at any time, by anyone. Buy this book Amazon Barnes and Noble Book Sense |
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