Book of Disquiet

Is this book any good? I see it on Veeky Forums's top 100 every year but never tried to pick it up. Is it just a meme?

Have not read it, but his poetry is god-tier.

If it was written in the 21st century it would have been dismissed as edgy teen shit desu

Spanish masterrace, I can read a translation of Pessoa and 80% of words and syntatic structures are the same. Sometimes even rhymes are preserved!

Not so fast hermano, Portuguese master race here, I can literally just read the fucking book in it's original language.

It's an amazing book, I've never read a book that provokes such emotions in me.
Get a good translation and enjoy.

why dont you fucking try reading it?

it is worth it.

Why are there so many Brazilian drug dealers in Dublin but no Portuguese? They're all quite friendly too.

i feel like this guy would have made a great philosopher or a sublime poet but all he did was sit and contemplate what passed in front of him without letting it take shape or simply ignoring the shapes that came out by themselves.

he's got great lines, with incredible insights that few attain, but he's got other passages that are just painful to read and could have been written by my aunt... i think this guy remained in his misery even when he was no longer naturally in it... the greatness of an author is to accept what humanity gives him and let this be shaped, not by, but though him.

this guy was given something great, and he chose to shut it down and hide it under his bed. his mind gave him first class material, he chose to let it all rot in a dark corner of some stinky room.

yet another manifestation of the inferiority of southern european people.

Because Ireland is the easiest place in Europe for macacos to get a 'student' visa, where they can also work.

Even in Lisbon the only drug dealers I've encountered (not including the Indians/gypsies selling tea to tourists) are from Brazil.

t. Dubliner living in Portugal with a Brazilian gf.