Livro do Desassossego de Fernando Pessoa. O drama em gente no drama editorial

Abstract

In this dissertation paper, it is an intention to analyze aspects of Fernando Pessoa´s work in the prose-poetic of Livro do Desassossego (Unrest Book) from Bernardo Soares. Starting from the reflection on the concept of “book”, it is possible to think about the theory of the “open work”, and about the literary text´s notions of opening and infinitude. This path enables an incisive quest at the work itself, and at the “book to come”, whose essence is in the inconclusive, in fragments of a book never concluded or closed. Through the analysis of some of its editions, there will be an attempt to think about the book also through the concept of ‘work in progress’ and rhizomatic work. The first part of this work aims at the reflection on the theoretical support for the dissertation confection, through thinkers, philosophers and critics such as Walter Benjamin (1984), José Guilherme Merquior (1991), Malcolm Bradbury e Frederick r. Karl (1989); Stéphane Mallarmé (1991) e Umberto Eco (1968), Homi Bhabha (2005), Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari (2004), Émile Durkheim (1987) e Eduardo Lourenço (1986). The second part is dedicated to the paper´s methodology, in order to justify the choice for the utilized analytical corpus: editions of Livro do Desassossego (Unrest Book) accomplished by Leyla Perrone-Moisés (1986), Richard Zenith (2011) e Jerónimo Pizarro (2013). The third and fourth parts are composed by analytical work. Through the collated editions and through a deeper reading, the analysis´ articulation is intended with the theoretical support and the methodology. The paper´s conclusive part intends to recapture possible analysis´ findings and support the critical provocation already initiated by literary names such as Eduardo Lourenço e Leyla Perrone-Moisés, according to whom Livro do Desassossego (Unrest Book) might be read as a material symbol for the certainty of all the texts’ non-closing and the possible suicide of Fernando de Pessoa´s heteronymic mithology.