/lit/ - Literature

Imagine trying this desperately to justify yourself being a coward.

Which translation of The Book of Disquiet do you recommend?

Translation by Richard Zenith, Margaret Jull Costa, or someone else?

Explain to me /lit/ what do you like so much about this book?
All my knowledge on Pessoa comes from studying him a bit (for around 3 months) during high school, so was this a bad book to pick up? So far I'm not having any problems but I heard it's quite a challenging book.
Also, tell me your favorite entries please.

The Book of Disquiet is the greatest work of modernist literature because it captures all those feelings of modern fragmentation, ennui, etc., without being pretentious about it whatsoever. Unlike Joyce or Eliot, there is no claim to extraordinary genius, no great effort to produce a monumental masterpiece. It is completely natural and it's a pleasure to read. It seems to flow effortlessly from the man's consciousness, like Homer. Beside that, there's something that I can't articulate about his work that I think really makes it classical. Here's something from Kierkegaard:

"The reason I cannot really say that I positively enjoy nature is that I do not quite realize what it is that I enjoy. A work of art, on the other hand, I can grasp. I can - if I may put it this way - find that Archimedean point, and as soon as I have found it, everything is readily clear to me. Then I am able to pursure this one main idea and see how all the details serve to illuminate it. I see the author's whole individuality as if it were the sea, in which every single detail is reflected."

This "Archimedean point" in Pessoa's works is something like the fact that amid all the hustle and bustle of the modern world with its great ambitions and its triumph of progress and its liberation of the individual, all that it's really come to is the isolation of the individual who now instead of being subject to some tribe or religion, is lost in the sea of his own dreams. He can't find his identity because there is no more objective correlation between the inner world and the outer world, because there is no more religious or political authority imposed from above that determines who one is - everybody is left to "be themselves", and this means that everyone is free to be at once everybody and nobody.

Pessoa is one of the greatest literary writers of all time. He was a true talent with true inspiration.

ITT: name a book and the personality type that best fits it
>pic related: INFP

>Oh man... he's just like me!

Holy shit

Have you ever read any portuguese writer?

Why is this any good?

Which translation is the best?

I'm only halfway done with pic related but it's almost scary how much I'm able to relate to it, so definitely this.

Pretty much this. I keep a copy by my bed and read random portions before going to sleep. It's a schizoid's soporific.

So I've been learning Spanish for a year to read this book in its original language and I just discovered that it's written in Portuguese?

WTF? What sort of shit tier language is Spanish? And it's supposed to be some sort of consolation that I can read a book about some fat fuck autistic knight and his donkey?

Some one told me I shouldn't read this if I was lonely or felt depressed.

Is that person right?

holy stirner

The Book of Disquiet is the greatest work of modernist literature because it captures all those feelings of modern fragmentation, ennui, etc., without being pretentious about it whatsoever. Unlike Joyce or Eliot, there is no claim to extraordinary genius, no great effort to produce a monumental masterpiece. It is completely natural and it's a pleasure to read. It seems to flow effortlessly from the man's consciousness, like Homer. Beside that, there's something that I can't articulate about his work that I think really makes it classical. Here's something from Kierkegaard:

"The reason I cannot really say that I positively enjoy nature is that I do not quite realize what it is that I enjoy. A work of art, on the other hand, I can grasp. I can - if I may put it this way - find that Archimedean point, and as soon as I have found it, everything is readily clear to me. Then I am able to pursure this one main idea and see how all the details serve to illuminate it. I see the author's whole individuality as if it were the sea, in which every single detail is reflected."

This "Archimedean point" in Pessoa's works is something like the fact that amid all the hustle and bustle of the modern world with its great ambitions and its triumph of progress and its liberation of the individual, all that it's really come to is the isolation of the individual who now instead of being subject to some tribe or religion, is lost in the sea of his own dreams. He can't find his identity because there is no more objective correlation between the inner world and the outer world, because there is no more religious or political authority imposed from above that determines who one is - everybody is left to "be themselves", and this means that everyone is free to be at once everybody and nobody.

Pessoa is one of the greatest literary writers of all time. He was a true talent with true inspiration.

*teleports behind you*

>pic related

Is pic related any good?

>>9371639
While I feel slightly inclined to agree with you, NEETs/virgins etc have been around for a long long time, I just think technology has allowed them to congregate and bemoan their anger in echo chambers