The book of disquiet

Author(s)

• Pessoa, Fernando
• Pizarro, Jerónimo
• Costa, Margaret Jull

Bibliographic Information

The book of disquiet

Fernando Pessoa ; edited by Jerónimo Pizarro ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

（A New Directions book）

New Directions, 2017

Other Title

Livro do desassossego

The book of disquiet : the complete edition

Note

First published in Portuguese as Livro do desassossego

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

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Details

• NCID: BB28635917
• ISBN:
  • 9780811226936
• LCCN: 2017000589
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: por
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xix, 468 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PQ9261.P417
  • DC23 : 869.1/41
  • DC23 : B
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Pessoa, Fernando, 1888-1935
  • LCSH : Poets, Portuguese -- 20th century -- Biography
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00251296