The book of disquiet
Subtitle: composed by Bernardo Soares, assistant bookkeeper in the city of Lisbon
By: by Fernando Pessoa ; translated by Alfred Mac Adam.
Publisher: Exact Change
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Pessoa, Fernando, -- 1888-1935.; Poets, Portuguese -- 20th century -- Biography.
Work titles: Livro do desassossego.
Description: 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.
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).