Literatura i banany. Realność miasta w Księdze niepokoju Fernanda Pessoi
Literature and Bananas. The Reality of a City in The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

Summary/Abstract: The titular “disquiet” is the outcome of an opposition to outside reality, unattainable and highly desirable. Life – symbolised by unpurchased bananas – follows its course outside the windows, in the streets of Lisbon. The civil servant trapped in an office is much too mired in self-reflections and absorbed in revelling in his misery to be able to overcome disquiet and experience the presence of the world...

• Details
• Contents