The Book of Disquiet, ways of reading
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2025vol45n1p26Keywords:
Book of Disquiet, Digital Archive, Digital Humanities, Fernando PessoaAbstract
This article examines the digital mediation of the Book of Disquiet and explores the role of the LdoD Archive as a literary simulator that enables new forms of interaction with Fernando Pessoa's work. Following a review of the Book's editorial trajectory, the study highlights the specific features of the LdoD Archive, which combines documentary preservation with an experimental dimension that allows readers to create virtual editions and navigate the fragments dynamically. The fragmentary and unfinished nature of the work finds in the digital medium a suitable environment for its modeling. The archive and its tools foster reflection on literary processes of writing, editing, reading, and textuality. The study also examines the "Virtual Edition: Philosophical Intertextuality", which maps connections between Pessoa's text and the philosophical tradition. The article aims to demonstrate how the digital medium expands the interpretative possibilities of Pessoa's work.
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