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The Book of Disquiet

By Fernando Pessoa, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)

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| Paperback | 9781852427580

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"There is a distinguished mind at work beneath the totally acceptable dullness of clerking. The mind is that of Pessoa. We must be given the chance to learn more about him." -- Anthony Burgess, "Observer"

Seated at his desk in the Lisbon's Rua dos Douradores, Bernardo Soares, an assistant book-keeContinue

"There is a distinguished mind at work beneath the totally acceptable dullness of clerking. The mind is that of Pessoa. We must be given the chance to learn more about him." -- Anthony Burgess, "Observer"

Seated at his desk in the Lisbon's Rua dos Douradores, Bernardo Soares, an assistant book-keeper, writes his diary -- a self-deprecating reflection on the sheer distance between the loftiness of his feelings and the humdrum reality of his everyday life.

"This is a prize-winning translation of a classic of existential literature -- a book acknowledged by the critics as "the most beautiful diary of the century."

Fernando Pessoa grew up in Durban, South Africa, where his stepfather was Portuguese consul. He returned to Lisbon in 1905 and worked as a clerk until his death in 1935. [예스24 제공]

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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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