The Book of Disquiet
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(6 ratings)468 pages2017New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN 9780811226936
Portuguese PoetsBiography
About this book
The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa's greatest literary achievement. An "autobiography" or "diary" containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions. Now, for the first time the texts are presented chronologically, in a complete English edition by master translator Margaret Jull Costa. Most of the texts in The Book of Disquiet are written under the semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares, an assistant bookkeeper. This existential masterpiece was first published in Portuguese in 1982, forty-seven years after Pessoa's death. A monumental literary event, this exciting, new, complete edition spans Fernando Pessoa's entire writing life.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Published
- 2017
- Pages
- 468
- ISBN
- 9780811226936
- Language
- en
About Fernando Pessoa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (Lisboa, 13 de junho de 1888 – Lisboa, 30 de novembro de 1935) foi um poeta português identificado com o modernismo, amplamente reconhecido como um dos principais expoentes da língua portuguesa e o maior poeta lusófono do século XX. Atuou também como dramaturgo, ensaísta, tradutor, publicitário, astrólogo, inventor, empresário, correspondente comercial, crítico literário e comentador político. ---------- Fernando Pessoa was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher, and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language.
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