What does /lit/ see in this book? I'm half way through it and it seems to me like an endless book of well-written inspirational quotes. I'm not liking it.
>>7984991
I'm reading it right now as well OP. I'm loving it. I feel like I can breathe after a lifetime of dying. Pesso a so perfectly captures profound arguments for solitude, literature, and has some fascinating rejections of common obsessions that were way ahead of his time.
Well it may seem like a bunch of quotes because it really isn't a book with a linear story; however, if you put effort on what you are reading you will find a perspective of life from a depressive man that is very rational and very lucid. It is not an easy reading but it is an extremely rewarding one; much like his poetry.
>inspirational quotes
i hope you're joking
>>7984991
I've had this book for years and have yet to finish. I read it like sections of prose. Whenever I feel like I'm tortured by a sense of misunderstanding, I always come back to Pessoa
>muh narrative novel
There are other forms of writing, you know. Yes, it's a collection of aphorisms. I wouldn't call them particularly inspirational, but whatever.
The only way they are inspirational is if you are thinking about killing yourself
>>7984991
Stupid shouldn't be allowed to read books. If you have an IQ below 110, you shouldn't be taught to read.
