The book of disquiet
By: Fernando Pessoa ; edited by Jerónimo Pizarro ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
Contributors: Pizarro, Jerónimo, editor; Costa, Margaret Jull, translator
Edition: Complete edition.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780811226936
Subjects: Portuguese Poets; Biography
Work titles: Livro do desassossego
Description: 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. --
Notes: Edition statement on spine.

Originally published in Portuguese as Livro do desassossego.
Table of contents: title: The Book of Disquiet (First Phase); title: The Book of Disquiet (Second Phase): From The Book of Disquiet composed by Bernardo Soares, assistant book-keeper in the city of Lisbon.