Stagnating the Life: Modern Wisdom in Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet

This article aims to draw attention the existence of a common ground on which modern artist and thinker come close each other in articulating uniquely urgency, gives shape new understanding wisdom. Departing from role often assigned poets/prose writers as “stagnators life” ages turmoil, examines The Book Disquiet, owned by Bernardo Soares, semi-heteronym Portuguese writer poet Fernando Pessoa, collection fragments that stage crucial moments stagnation. After underlining how modernist literature has been viewed separate realm devastating socio-political developments twentieth century, it exemplifies some experimenting gestures so-called “wise” through an analysis Disquiet. focuses co-existence poetry prose, exteriorization interior experience via notion landscape, idea life can best be observed distance after is fully stopped. Drawing literary readings Walter Benjamin, Maurice Blanchot, Paul de Man, show like works such poet/prose Rilke Kafka, illustrates destiny artist, unlike world, was break with teleological concerns daily favor capturing its reality.