num_pages: 544
description: Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology, and horoscope. When he died in 1935, Pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable pages that make up his posthumous masterpiece, The Book of Disquiet, an astonishing work that, in George Steiner's words, "gives to Lisbon the haunting spell of Joyce's Dublin or Kafka's Prague." Published for the first time some fifty years after his death, this unique collection of short, aphoristic paragraphs comprises the "autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa's alternate selves. Part intimate diary, part prose poetry, part descriptive narrative, captivatingly translated by Richard Zenith, The Book of Disquiet is one of the greatest works of the twentieth century.
language: English
title: The Book of Disquiet
titlecomplete: The Book of Disquiet
genres: 20th Century, Portugal, Unfinished, Philosophy, Novels, Poetry, Literature, Portuguese Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 28998
places: Lisbon
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Κρατικό Βραβείο Λογοτεχνικής Μετάφρασης
category: Μετάφραση Έργου Ξένης Λογοτεχνίας στην Ελληνική Γλώσσα, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Traducció
publisher: Penguin Classics