Fernando Pessoa: Bernando Soares (The Book of Disquiet)

9 Novembro 2017, 10:00 • Helena Carvalhão Buescu

An introduction to Bernardo Soares' fictional biography, style and philosophical perspectives (shared with the orthonym).

The "Triumphal Day" as the triumph and systematization of heteronimy over the unified self.

Reading and discussion of Fragments 69, 70 and 298 from The Book of Disquiet, the "impossible book", by the semi-heteronym Bernando Soares.

The Book of Disquiet as "a factless autobiography"; compensation for an uneventful daily life (the "common human banality") with a boundless imagination: the Rückenfigur as the representation of the anonymous modern city but also as a gateway to another reality; the absurdity of life (a dead end); incompatibility between knowledge/consciousness and happiness.