The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa
The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa
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The Book of Disquiet

Author: Fernando Pessoa

Narrator: Adam Sims

Unabridged: 17 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 07/13/2018

Synopsis

Assembled from notes and jottings left unpublished at the time of the author’s death, The Book of Disquiet is a collection of aphoristic prose-poetry musings on dreams, solitude, time and memory. 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. 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. Soares has no ambition, nor has he any friends; he is plagued with disquiet, and only imagination and dreams can conquer it. Compiled by the translator Richard Zenith, Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet is a fulgent tribute to the imagination of man.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on March 22, 2019

Here is the only Portuguese literary joke I know: Q. Who are the four greatest Portuguese poets of the 20th century? A. Fernando Pessoa. Trust me, it's funny. But it does take a little explaining. Fernando Pessoa, in order to express various philosophical and poetic moods, constructed a series of wha......more

Goodreads review by Jim on August 24, 2023

If you read this, you need to know what you are signing up for, so, below, I’ll let Pessoa speak for himself. It’s a series of vignettes, random thoughts and meditations all written between 1913 and 1935. It’s a work of genius, of course. Pessoa, the famous Portuguese writer and poet was known for h......more

Goodreads review by Vit on January 30, 2022

The Book of Disquiet is incredibly aphoristic – one can take almost any sentence at random and use it as an aphorism… And so, not knowing how to believe in God and unable to believe in an aggregate of animals, I, along with other people on the fringe, kept a distance from things, a distance commonly......more

Goodreads review by Matthias on March 20, 2017

1 Some books wrap me up in dreams and fantasy, creating a protective bubble in which I can leisurely gaze at the world in comfort. The opposite happened when reading “The Book of Disquiet”, a book that lives up to its title like no other. I didn’t get wrapped up in anything. With every sentence I rea......more

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