The Book Of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

The Book Of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

For the first time?and in the best translation ever?the complete Book of Disquiet, a masterpiece beyond comparisonThe 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 inThe 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.Review?Endlessly ponderable.? -Electric Literature?A triumph of scholarship and translation.? -Marcela Valdes, Publisher Weekly (Starred Review)?As searing as Rilke or Mandelstam.? -The New York Times Book Review?The ultimate futility of all accomplishment, the fascination of loneliness, the way sorrow colors our perception of the world: Pessoa?s insight into his favorite themes was purchased at a high price, but he wouldn?t have had it any other way. A modern masterpiece.? -Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker?As addictive, and endearing, as Borges and Calvino.? -The Washington Post Book World?One of the central figures of European modernism.? -Max Nelson, The New York Review of Books?Pessoa?s workThe Book of Disquiet is one of life?s great miracles. Pessoa invented numerous alter egos. Arguably, the four greatest poets in the Portuguese language were all Pessoa using different names.? -NPR?Nobody can render the the hollowed horror of a world wrung out quite as gorgeously as Pessoa.? -Bookforum?Lyrical, poetic?but to call these paragraphs prose poems would be misleading. There is something necessarily prosaic about them.The Book of Disquiet is caught up in the steady drumbeat of ordinary life and all its detritus: a favorite pair of boots, a type of pant that?s in fashion, the way people in Lisbon pronounce Tr