Title: 'absurdly' overrated --or, "An existential masterpiece" . . .
Product review: Sure to become a part of the ever growing existentialist canon, Pessoa's resurrected, unpublished manuscripts make their appearance here for the first time in English. The platitudes that constitute the majority of the text are banal in the main, comically Schopenhauerian the rest of the time. This reviewer would put zero stars if he could, but amazon does not allow it, and it happens to be slightly more competent than average, as far as these things go --nearly Dostoevsky-ish in bits and flashes.The Book of Disquiet -- now a penguin 'classic', peddled to devotees of "the bourgeois philosophy". An atavistic triumph for Stalinist literary criticism the world over.
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