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The Book of Disquiet is the autobiography of Bernardo Soares, whom Pessoa described as a 'semiheteronym' because "his personality is not different from mine, rather a simple mutilation of it." But Soares never completed his book; it was discovered after Pessoa's death, on disordered scraps of paper in a trunk.
Nearly fifty years later, The Book of Disquiet was finally published, but because any edition or translation of this work must choose a sequence for its entries, each presents a substantially different text. Alfred Mac Adam's translation has been widely reviewed as the most accurate and vivid in English.
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Portuguese Poets, Poetas portugueses, Fiction, Biografía, Biography, Modern fiction, General, Poetry, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Poetry (poetic works by one author), Pessoa, fernando, 1888-1935, Poets, biography, Portugal, biography, Notebooks, sketchbooks, Authors, portuguese, Biographie, Poètes portugais, Biographies, Poets, PortuguesePeople
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)Places
Lisbon (Portugal)Times
20th century, Siglo XX, 20e siècleShowing 5 featured editions. View all 58 editions?
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Libro del desasosiego: compuesto por Bernardo Soares, auxiliar de tenedor de libros en la ciudad de Lisboa
2000, Emecé, c2000
in Spanish
- [3a ed.].
9500421283 9789500421287
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The book of disquiet: composed by Bernardo Soares, assistant bookkeeper in the city of Lisbon
1998, Exact Change
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1878972278 9781878972279
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The book of disquietude: by Bernardo Soares, assistant bookkeeper in the city of Lisbon
1996, Sheep Meadow Press
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1878818651 9781878818652
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Edition Notes
"Composed by Bernardo Soares, assistant bookkeeper in the city of Lisbon."
Previously published: New York : Pantheon Books, c1991.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-276).
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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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