The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

Name: The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
Rating: 4.326530612244898 (98 reviews)
Author: Fernando Pessoa
ISBN: 9789723711219

by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith

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(98 ratings)

508 pages31 editions2002Assírio & AlvimISBN 9789723711219

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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: Assírio & Alvim
Published: 2002
Pages: 508
ISBN: 9789723711219
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.