/lit/ - Literature

>>13138257
He couldn't care less about sex or women. He wasn't an incel.

>>13138285
Volcel is cope. He was burning inside with resentment for his inceldom.

You got PESSOAD and pleb-filtered. Congrats.

>>13138257
You didnt actually read him, did you?

You just read some quotes on goodreads or something, didnt you?

>>13138299
He rejected women left and right. He was too depressed to care for pussy.

>>13138304
I know Portuguese and just bought a collection called "Fernando Pessoa - O eu profundo e os outros eus" that i saw selling on the train. It's trash, even more trash in Portuguese.

>>13138308
if he hadn't died so young he would have never let anyone publish his diaries prob would've have burnt them out of embarrassment

>>13138308
>y-yeah i d-don't even want it anyway
c o p e

>>13138321
He was engaged, retard.

Pessoa is more than just Bernardo Soares.

>>13138327
did he stick his one inch dick in his fiance's vagina ?

>>13138317
So you bought a cherrypicked collection edited by some inane woman? Got it.

I bet they'd have a field day with Kafka or Dostoevsky

>>13138327
He wasn't, retard. He died a virgin, and academic professors like to push the narrative that he was a faggot, which he certainly was. Here is he getting cucked (a letter to a girl he liked):

>Se prefere a mim o rapaz que namora, e de quem naturalmente gosta muito, como lhe posso eu levar isso a mal? A Ophelinha pode preferir quem quiser: não tem obrigação — creio eu — de amar-me, nem, realmente necessidade (a não ser que queira divertir-se) de fingir que me ama.
>Quem ama verdadeiramente não escreve cartas que parecem requerimentos de advogado. O amor não estuda tanto as coisas, nem trata os outros como réus que é preciso «entalar».
>Porque não é franca para comigo? Que empenho tem em fazer sofrer quem não lhe fez mal — nem a si, nem a ninguém —, a quem tem por peso e dor bastante a própria vida isolada e triste, e não precisa de que lha venham acrescentar criando-lhe esperanças falsas, mostrando-lhe afeições fingidas, e isto sem que se perceba com que interesse, mesmo de divertimento, ou com que proveito, mesmo de troça.

lmaaaaaao Pessoa got friendzoned and is pretty mad about it. I'm surprised he didn't chimp out and challenge the other dude to a duel or something.

>>13138333
The fuck should I know about his sex life. Men frequented brothels all the time back then and it wasn't frowned upon. Men losing their virginity to whores was more or less the norm.

>>13138345
I don't know, i heard about Pessoa and i saw the opportunity to buy one of his books (it was cheap as fuck) so i bought it and was unpleasantly surprised.

>he hasn't read Mensagem

>>13138357
Unfortunately for your literary palette, you've been pleb-filtered. Sorry for your loss

>>13138317
>It's trash, even more trash in Portuguese.
The rhythm and rhyme of his poetry are lost in translation. Never go full retard.

>>13138299
>Volcel
>cope
>inceldom
>Drooling 4chan retard cant think in anything but memes, is befuddled by poetry.
It would be poetic if it wasn't so asinine.

>>13138369
Whatever you say, nerd. You can go enjoy your little faggy poetry about how "i feel so much.... im so overwhelmed by my emotions and like im so sad...." while i study Ancient Greek and Latin to read REAL poetry, that is, The Iliad and the Aeneid, which talks about REAL, important things.

This thread is the perfect example why this place is nothing but cancer.

>>13138392
*tips fedora*

>>13138392

>taking this bait seriously

I thought /lit/ was smart

>>13138319
I love Pessoa but this is probably true. Its the transition from being a child and turning into an adult that is usually captured in literature with say Sylvia Plath or Osamu Dazai but with Pessoa what made him so unique was that he never realized his state in reality until middle-age was rounding around the corner. The more matured perspective of it no only makes it better than The Bell Jar and No Longer Human but it makes it more sad. An Adult that is rolling through his 30s realizing hes not capable of the dreams he had in his 20s/teens

>this thread

The absolute state of this board.

>>13138345
>someone didn't like one of my favourite authors!
>how could this le be!?
>I know! It's because a woman was the editor for the book they read!
>she must've fucked up his glorious writings in some way! It can't be because they didn't like my favourite author

>>13138536
Yes anon, women ruin everything. That is a fact

>>13138692
based
>>13138536
cringe. ironic.

>>13138536
Read On Women by Based Schoppy. His assumption was fair.

i got pretty bored with it as well. i forget how far i made it into the book of disquiet but surely not a hundred pages. each little section just seemed to be repeating the same notion over and over again. it didn't seem to go anywhere.

Same here. I'm trying to read the Book of Disquiet in portuguese (it's my main language) and I'm kinda desmotivated to keep reading it.

The worst thing is that it's the only unread book I have at the moment and I live in a shithole where books are too expensive.

>>13140815
Eu paguei 40 reais no Livro do Desassossego e achei bem ruinzinho. Ainda bem que eu troquei por algo melhor.

>>13140219
Not only that but these sections themselves are really uninteresting. You can find great insight here and there but they aren't enough to keep you reading. Pessoa is the most overrated meme this board made me read.

Read it on small doses every now and then and you will enjoy it. If you try to read it in one sit down you will get bored. Pessoa spent his whole life writing that, just read it in the same way.

>>13138347
... translate please

>>13138257
I look a lot like him in this picture.

>>13142631
i'm sorry, anon...