%0 Journal Article
%T Metaphysics and Literature in the Time of Untruth. On The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
%A Jagłowski, Mieczysław
%J Wielogłos
%V 2023
%R 10.4467/2084395XWI.23.022.18558
%N Issue 3 (57) 2023
%P 111-128
%K Fernando Pessoa, heteronymy, truth, literature, philosophy, Friedrich Nietzsche
%@ 1897-1962
%D 2023
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/wieloglos/article/metafizyka-i-literatura-w-epoce-nieprawdy-o-ksiedze-niepokoju-fernanda-pessoi
%X 
	The article is concerned with one of the most fascinating prose texts of the 20th century – Livro do desassossego (The Book of Disquiet) by Fernando Pessoa, one of the most prominent poets of the Portuguese language. The uniqueness of the Book, among others, is illustrated by the fact that it can be freely composed from 30,000 fragments Pessoa did not publish, but whose authorship he did not ascribe to himself, but to his half-heteronym (porte-parole), Bernardo Soares. The article explores the philosophical sources of the phenomenon of heteronymy characteristic for Pessoa’s work and the obsessive thread of the Book – the narrator’s inability to grasp the sense of his life and his own identity. In this context, the issue of relations between literature and philosophy is considered, with regard to the modernist undermining of philosophy’s claims to truth, and equating both of these areas of their creativity in terms of possibility of accessing the truth and expressing it.

	* Artykuł powstał przy wsparciu Narodowego Centrum Nauki, numer grantu 2017/27/B/HS1/00234.