By Fernando Pessoa
Title note: unique name O Livro do Desassossego
Contributor note: ahead by way of William Boyd
Publish 12 months note: First released in 1982
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Sitting at his table, Bernardo Soares imagined himself unfastened endlessly of Rua dos Douradores, of his boss Vasques, of Moreira the book-keeper, of the entire different staff, the errand boy, the put up boy, even the cat. but when he left all of them the following day and discarded the swimsuit of garments he wears, what else could he do? simply because he must do anything. And what swimsuit may he put on? simply because he must put on one other suit.
A self-deprecating mirrored image at the sheer distance among the loftiness of his emotions and the humdrum truth of his lifestyles, The e-book of Disquiet is a vintage of existentialist literature.
Fernando Pessoa, one of many founders of modernism, was once born in Lisbon in 1888. so much of Pessoa's writing was once no longer released in the course of his lifetime: The booklet of Disquiet was once first released in Portugal in 1982.
"Readers with a specific curiosity in modernism will locate this paintings indispensable."—Publishers Weekly
"Pessoa's impressive character is as beguiling and mysterious as his specified poetic output."—William Boyd
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In these hagiographical texts, only the “official” divinities in one of the pantheons have a counterpart in the other. The gods and goddesses extraneous to both pantheons are kept in their original form and not adapted to the known frame of reference. In the same way the demons and evil spirits from exotic 24 11th International Saga Conference 25 lands are quoted with the names they have in the Latin sources. Obviously no need was felt to make them familiar to the Scandinavian audience. The most original and discussed passage about the pagan gods is undoubtedly the one from Clemens saga, on which Tveitane focused his attention in a paper on interpretatio Norrœna delivered at the 6th Saga Conference in Helsingør in 1985.
Sanctuarium, seu, Vitae sanctorum 2, Paris 1910. ] stundum i fiors liki, stundum Odins, stundum Freyiu, en stundum i Friggiar liki edr annarra heidinna manna (Martin3 61823-25 ) Agatha respondit: Sit talis uxor tua: qualis tua dea Venus fuit: et tu sis talis qualis deus tuus Iouis extitit (PassAgat 3816-18) Heilog mær svaradi: Ver flu sem gud flinn Odinn, en kona flin slik sem Freyia gydia flin (Agat1 231-32 ) But the equivalence between Mercurius and Ó›inn on the one hand and Jupiter and fiórr on the other is not so immediate in some other translations.
124. 14 The Latin source is quoted from Acta Sanctorum Ianuarii 2. 15 Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum, 6, 5, 4. 32 Simonetta Battista manente nostrorum assertione Iovem Mercurii filium exstitisse convincitur, apud quos Thor Othini genitus vulgari sententia perhibetur. Cum ergo Latini contrario opinionis tenore Mercurium Iove editum asseverunt, restat, ut constante eorum affirmatione Thor alium quam Iovem, Othinum quoque Mercurio sentiamus exstitisse diversum. From the analysis of the names of the planetary weekdays we learn that Jupiter corresponds to fiórr and Mercurius to Ó›inn.