The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780811226936)

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.

Author: Fernando Pessoa
ISBN-10: 081122693X
ISBN-13: 9780811226936
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 08/29/2017
Pages: 488
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.70w x 1.50d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2017
Publishers Weekly 07/03/2017
Library Journal 07/01/2017