An Unwritten Novel: Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet

Download or read book An Unwritten Novel: Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet written by Thomas Cousineau and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly insightful guide to Fernando Pessoa’s masterpiece, for both students and the common reader. “Anything and everything, depending on how one sees it, is a marvel or a hindrance, an all or a nothing, a path or a problem,” says Bernardo Soares, the putative author of Fernando Pessoa’s classic The Book of Disquiet. Thomas Cousineau’s An Unwritten Novel offers the general reader, as well as students and teachers, an “Ariadne’s thread” that will help them to find their way through this labyrinthine masterpiece: a self-proclaimed “factless autobiography” in which all the expected elements of the contemporary novel remain “unwritten.”