The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

Name: The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
Rating: 4.296511627906977 (86 reviews)
Author: Fernando Pessoa
ISBN: 9789723704761

by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith, Jerónimo Pizarro, Margaret Jull Costa

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(86 ratings)

488 pages31 editions2017W. W. NortonISBN 9789723704761

English & College SuccessEnglishPoetryFiction

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: W. W. Norton
Published: 2017
Pages: 488
ISBN: 9789723704761
Language: en
Editions: 31

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.