It is presented here, for the first time in English, by order of original composition, and accompanied by facsimiles of the original manuscript.Narrated principally by an assistant bookkeeper named Bernardo Soares - an alias of sorts for Pessoa himself - The Book of Disquiet is 'the autobiobraphy of someone who never existed', a mosaic of dreams, of hope and despair a hymn to the streets and cafes of 1930s Lisbon, and an extraordinary record of the inner life of one of the century's most important writers. Now this fragmentary modernist masterpiece appears in a major new edition that unites Margaret Jull Costa's celebrated translation with the most complete version of the text ever produced. Written over the course of Fernando Pessoa's life, it was first published in 1982, pieced together from the thousands of individual manuscript pages left behind by Pessoa after his death in 1935. The Book of Disquiet is one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. A monumental literary event, this exciting, new, complete edition spans Fernando Pessoa’s entire writing life.We're sorry this specific copy is no longer available. This existential masterpiece was first published in Portuguese in 1982, forty-seven years after Pessoa’s death. Most of the texts in The Book of Disquiet are written under the semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares, an assistant bookkeeper. Now, for the first time the texts are presented chronologically, in a complete English edition by master translator Margaret Jull Costa.
An “autobiography” or “diary” containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions. The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa’s greatest literary achievement. The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition by Fernando Pessoa / ISBN 9780811226936 / 488-page hardcover from New Directions, cover by Peter Mendelsundįor the first time―and in the best translation ever―the complete Book of Disquiet, a masterpiece beyond comparison
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