![]() ![]() ![]() It is perhaps helpful to put this book into some kind of context. It's a tremendously difficult book to try to explain. It's quite simply a masterpiece of modernist writing. Rather, dip into it at random and you will find a work of undeniable genius. But I would urge you not to read this book like that. It's so introspective that after a while the monotony of the writer's mundane existence starts to wear on the reader. Nothing much happens, and what we have is a collection of reveries and thoughts - almost a diary, but not quite - of existential musings about life, loneliness and the human condition. If you try to read The Book of Disquiet from cover to cover, it is almost oppressively melancholic. ![]() A collection of random musings of a fiercely contemplative mind rather than a novel, it is best treated as you would a book of poetry to be dipped into rather than read right through. Summary: An existential, modernist masterpiece. ![]()
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