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Wow, he's literally me

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>>21670502
Nice hat

>> No.21670546

>>21670502
why do you think so?

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UM HOMEM PINGUIM NOMEADO «PESSOA»: O QUE SÉGUESE —UM ESFENESCO HUMANÓIDE CHAMADO «CUNHINHA»?

RISÍVEL BIGODINHO; A VERA IMAGEM DO PROTOCHUD.

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>>21670546
I relate heavily to The Book Of Disquiet, especially his takes on boredom and tedium and how it almost drives him to madness. I finished the book recently and I think I'm gonna start reading it again.

>> No.21670570

I never feel bored really. But I think it's because I am always restless.

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>Bernardo Soares is literally me

>> No.21671385

>>21670502
This dude has one of the quintessential iberian faces i swear. I feel like i have seen his face a thousand times.

>> No.21672072

Book of disquiet? More like my diary desu!

>> No.21672110

>>21670554
i was just thinking about you

>> No.21672202

>>21670502
He was a schizo who got caught up with modernism and nihilism

>> No.21672284

I wrote an entire mystery book about Pessoa being trapped in the middle of cold war spy operation and mistaken to be a spy by said spies, which as a result try to kidnap him and extract information. 50% of the book is about Pessoa trying to rationalise not doing anything about the circumstances and dream about abstract goddess woman.

>> No.21673300

>>21670502
Been meaning to read him, where should I start?

>> No.21673362

>>21673300
Disquiet maybe. Either that or a collection of his poems

>> No.21673377

>>21672284
Is it published? Sounds kino. lol

>> No.21674013

>>21673300
The Book of Disquiet

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Raul Brandao is better

>> No.21675321

>>21670554
>ENFENESCO
What do you even mean by this? Enfezado?
He wasn't a chud; he had people during his lifetime that admired him; he had a girlfriend whom he rejected to focus on his literary work.

>>21674051
Brandão at least has completed work, not even book of disquiet is a finished book.
Pessoa is foremost a poet, and after that an essayist. His fiction is too rigid, reads more like philosophy than fiction i.e. The Anarchist Banker
What would you recommend from Brandão? I've only read "Os Pescadores".
Also, is Brandão's fully translated? I haven't found a translation for "Os Pescadores" for example.

>>21673300
I'd recommend the Ultimatum by Álvaro de Campos.
It showcases the 1910's yearning for a new ideal in modern world which, later showcased in the defeatism presented in posterior texts, ultimately fails.

>> No.21675332

>>21675321
>later showcased in the defeatism presented in posterior texts
I know this is pretty much Book of Disquiet but what poems of his also show this defeatism? That's my favorite book ever and I want to read his poetry.

>> No.21675680

>>21675332
Basically anything by Álvaro de Campos, after his Futurist phase, starting around the 1920's.
After the idealism of Futurism was washed away and after his Master, Alberto Caeiro, died, not even being able to attend his final moments, Campos is at a loss and with no goals.
A good poem, probably the best the poem, is the Tobacco Shop which the culmination of all those existentialist feelings into the longest poem of the Intimate phase, the 3rd and last phase.

Álvaro de Campos is probably the most "human" of all the personalities of Pessoa, probably even more so than Pessoa himself. It is simply distilled emotion, that Pessoa himself didn't usually indulge in.
Pessoa's own poems never reach that decadent or existential dread; they tend to be more melancholic and nostalgic, hermetic and obscurantist.
Pessoa has ambition or, at the very least, hope; he strives to find meaning, be it intelectual or mystical. For Campos, all is futile after having failed.

However, I cannot stress enough how important it is, for the comprehension of all the drama that are the literary the characters of Pessoa, the reading of Alberto Caeiro as he is the Master of all the main heteronyms and of Pessoa himself. It is him that informs them, through his world view, how they should perceive the world through sensations.

>> No.21675707

>>21672202
So he was 4chan before 4chan was a thing?

>> No.21675780

>>21675680
thank you anon, judging from book of disquiet alone I'm not sure why Pessoa is not more popular these days, his words are very relevant.

>> No.21676024

>>21675321
>What would you recommend from Brandão?
Húmus. It's the Book of Disquiet, but better, older and published in his lifetime
>Also, is Brandão's fully translated?
Nope.