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The Book of Disquiet

By Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (Translator)

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| Hardcover | 9780713995275

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Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. The Portuguese author attributed his work to literary alter egos that he called "heteronyms," each of which had a fully developed identity. When Pessoa died, he left behind a trunk filled with disorderly scraps of unpublished poems and unfinished works, amongContinue

Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. The Portuguese author attributed his work to literary alter egos that he called "heteronyms," each of which had a fully developed identity. When Pessoa died, he left behind a trunk filled with disorderly scraps of unpublished poems and unfinished works, among which was The Book of Disquiet. Published for the first time some fifty years after his death, this unique collection of short, aphoristic paragraphs comprises the "autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa's alternate selves. Part intimate diary, part prose poetry, part descriptive narrative, captivatingly translated by Richard Zenith, The Book of Disquiet is one of the greatest works of the twentieth century.

Edited and Translated with an Introduction by Richard Zenith

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  • Masked magic

    The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa, trans and ed Richard Zenith 509pp, Allen Lane, £20 For whatever reason, modernism was fascinated by masks, personae, disguises. "There will be time," wrote T S Eliot, "there will be time, / To prepare a face to m ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

    There will never be a definitive edition of The Book of Disquiet, however hard anyone tries. Apart from a few fragments he suffered to be published in his lifetime, Pessoa's greatest work took the form of 350 fragments shoved into an envelope found i ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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