Rizoma e pluralidade ontológica no Livro do desassossego

Abstract

This short essay on The book of disquiet, from a Deleuzian’s reading, focuses on two essential topics. Firstly, from the point of view of its structural composition, The book of disquiet is post-modern rhizome, for it consists of fragments that are connected to each other, but differing among themselves. This fragmentary composition expresses, in its turn, another ontological split in the plural and decentred personality of Fernando Pessoa that is generated by the movement of internal Difference. This postmodern approach of The book of disquiet proceeds from the untimely genius of its author, who knew how to assimilate certain traditions of the nineteenth century; to dare to try new possibilities in modernism with Orpheus; and to open new clearings of a time to come, which represents our contemporary post-modern. In the untimely dimension of this postmodern future, we are interested in highlighting certain signs and symptoms from the movement of the ontological Difference – a pure differentiating intensity – as it is done in our reading of the drama in interactive souls. Hence the ideal set of differences, static drama and the heteronymic rhizome in the transcendental field of thought and creation. This is an ontological set in which if there is space for chance, random and becoming-other the fractal breakup of subjectivity then operates. In this ideal set of differences that shapes the heteronymic dramaturgy, the virtual multiplicities (affects, perceptions or visions) update themselves on the fluid consciousness of the singularity that is Bernardo Soares and they are part of the plan of expression.