![]() ![]() The obviously answer would be the Penguin one as long as its the one by Richard Zenith.The thing about The Book of Disquiet is that it does not really exist on its own. A monumental literary event, this exciting, new, complete edition spans Fernando Pessoa’s entire writing life. The Book of Disquiet is absolutely incredible, and Pessoa is considered along with Neruda to be the best poet of the twentieth century in any language. 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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