[.ca] Book Of Disquiet (ISBN 0713995270)

Change your life - read Pessoa:
This book is amazing. I had never heard of Pessoa before I spied the book at Shakespeare & Co here in Paris, read the attached reviews and thought it must be worth the 10 Euros to see what I was missing. Pessoa is unlike any other writer you will ever read. The closest match to this book that I can think of is Augustine's Confessions, albeit a more lovely written, more moving, post-modernist, secular version of that classic. It is existential philosophy, literary theory, diary, poetry, dream journal and confession all wrapped into one. A profound and profoundly moving book which will leave you wondering why such an incredible writer and thinker remains so obscure. The book is written in snatches, better to be dipped into at leisure than read straight thru. You'll find yourself annotating passages, writing down qoutes, rereading sections endlessly. You'll begin to question the reality of your existence, if not your own sanity, if you read it too thoroughly. This is truly Art of the highest order and should be read by every thinking person. I'd give it 6 stars if I could.

A book which will change the way you think:
It's not a book based on plot or persuasion; merely a book which presents incredible feelings and ideas in a fantastic way. Often we have all wondered about the true nature of simply BEING. Often we feel as though the world passes us by, or hunts us, or seeks to confuse us. Pessoa simply puts these feelings into beautifully flowing prose. Complex ideas and feelings are written of so skillfully that I feel as if we had been the same person. This book is well worth reading.

the struggle to put into words:
AKIN TO reading A DIARY, SUBMERGED, TURNED WRITTEN WITHIN, NOT NECCESARY easy.O THINKING\oSPINNING\c godlikea I AM \c}KING Ones own entity CUT OFFNESS TOLD IN MATTER OF FACTNESS, this is like a fresh aproach to the use of words to create an ACUTUALNESS THE I WISHES TO STIMULATE WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO WRITE A MORE REAL WORLD USING THE INTERNAL,what it would be like to have multiple LIVES IN THIS LIFE.