READINGS FROM THE BOOK OF DISQUIET, BY FERNANDO PESSOA | OPEN MIC

August 3 | 21:30

Location: Lagos Book Fair – Armazém Regimental Org.: CM Lagos and Shantarin Duration: 60 min Age rating: M12 Free entry

The “Book of Disquiet” is a treasure of contemporary literature and the most famous work of one of the greatest, most translated, published, and read poets of the 20th century: Fernando Pessoa. It presents itself as an epic of the Negative, through the lens of the semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares, a bookkeeper's assistant in Lisbon, who wanders the city in his spare time and writes seemingly disconnected reflections, united, however, by experiences in the decaying city and by two key ideas that run through them: the dissolution of the bourgeois universe and the sublimation of the unreality of existence through the reality of writing.

In the multilingual reading of the “Book of Disquiet” with open mic, readers from various geographies will be challenged to wander through Pessoa's universe, reading in Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, and Italian fragments organized into seven main themes: «Modern Life», «Daydreaming», «The City», «Sensation», «Identity», «The Work», and «The Philosophy of Composition».