num_pages: 323
description: Anglomaniac, myopic, courteous, evasive, dressed darkly, reticent andagreeable, a cosmopolitan who preaches nationalism, 'solemn investigator offutile things', humorist who never smiles but chills our blood, inventor ofother poets and destroyer of himself, author of paradoxes as clear as waterand, as water, dizzying: 'to pretend is to know yourself', mysterious manwho does not cultivate mystery, mysterious as the mid-day moon, taciturnphantom of the Portuguese mid-day -- who is Pessoa?Octavio PazThe Book of Disquietude is the 'factless autobiography' of Bernardo Soares,one of the 72 literary 'heteronyms' -- personae or masks -- with whichFernando Pessoa created the theatre of himself. Conceived in 1916, Soaresis, Pessoa declares, 'a mutilation' of his own personality. This is the first, and only complete, English edition of thePortuguese original. Other versions are abridgements. The translator andscholar Richard Zenith includes all the 'fragments' which made up the 1982edition, 48 additional fragments and some from the Pessoa archive neverpreviously published. He provides a full introduction and notes.
language: English
title: The Book of Disquietude
titlecomplete: The Book of Disquietude (Aspects of Portugal)
genres: Unfinished, Portugal, Portuguese Literature, Fiction, Poetry, 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Novels, Philosophy
ratings_count: 29033
places: Lisbon
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name: Κρατικό Βραβείο Λογοτεχνικής Μετάφρασης
category: Μετάφραση Έργου Ξένης Λογοτεχνίας στην Ελληνική Γλώσσα, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Traducció
publisher: Carcanet Press in association with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation