“A minha vida é como se me batessem com ela”: a escrita e a(s) exigência(s) do desassossego

Abstract

This paper aims at presenting an examination of the production of literature as a response to the confrontation and the affections experienced by the writer. The artist, with his essential characteristic to find himself very present and close to what surrounds him, will be the one who understands and receives the changes that occur, particularly in modernity, and face the overwhelming that these changes cause by their very essence and he carries such disquiet to his production: art. In modernity, man sees himself released in an unprecedented globalization, among other things, the launches him into a loneliness in that changings the values are needed as quickly as the moment requires. In the specific case of the studied book, Fernando Pessoa built in Livro do Desassossego what the heteronym to whom its authorship is attributed (Bernardo Soares) calls a kind of biography "without facts". It is through this biography without facts that Soares is placed as someone who needs to write to deal with melancholy that assaults him, showing thus that writing functions as a treatment for his pain: such pains that are quite his, and not to be confused with those of other heteronyms, show one more feature of modernity: fragmentation and the incessant search for something that would be possible to always call "I".