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**Rqqneujr** · 07-22-2008, 07:55 PM

The affinities between this and The Book of Disquiet have occasionally been noted, but I wonder if there's more to it than that. Was Pessoa acquainted with these books, published 1919-20? Might they have prompted him to set aside Disquiet, or to return to it?

The first fragment of 'Disquiet' was written in 1913; and Pessoa references this work in progress in his correspondence from 1914 onwards. Let's just accept that around the time WWI started, change was in the air and a group of kindred souls - Joyce, Pessoa, Musil, Kafka, Proust - working independently, shared similar aesthetic visions that would lead to modern literature. Much in the same way, Dada started in Zurich and New York at the same time, without the groups from each country knowing the other existed. It was the spirit of the age manifesting itself.

07-22-2008, 07:55 PM	#14
Rqqneujr Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 533 Senior Member	The affinities between this and The Book of Disquiet have occasionally been noted, but I wonder if there's more to it than that. Was Pessoa acquainted with these books, published 1919-20? Might they have prompted him to set aside Disquiet, or to return to it? The first fragment of 'Disquiet' was written in 1913; and Pessoa references this work in progress in his correspondence from 1914 onwards. Let's just accept that around the time WWI started, change was in the air and a group of kindred souls - Joyce, Pessoa, Musil, Kafka, Proust - working independently, shared similar aesthetic visions that would lead to modern literature. Much in the same way, Dada started in Zurich and New York at the same time, without the groups from each country knowing the other existed. It was the spirit of the age manifesting itself.
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