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Dead Man Saloon posted:Has anybody here read The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa? It has been intriguing me recently but there seems to be a lot of debate over which English edition is best. I read this one. Well, part of it anyway. I don't know what made me keep putting it down, but I would read a few pages of it, set it down, stare at it for a few days, pick it up again, make a little progress and repeat the process. The writing is beautiful, and I think the translation is pretty good (take this with a grain of salt because I really have no basis for this other than that it "feels" that way.) I think maybe the intense introspectiveness of it hit home a little too hard for me, because throughout there's a simultaneous and strange feeling of both utter despair and uplifting appreciation of life's beauty. While I read it I wanted the author to break away from the mundane life he lived and go experience the other parts of the world outside of his state, but I'm not sure if he ever actually does it. It's hard to detect a specific tone to the writing without feeling like you're projecting yourself onto it. It's a mysterious read.
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