Fernando Pessoa

The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Pizarro, Jerónimo / Übersetzer: Costa, Margaret Jull

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For the first timeand in the best translation everthe complete Book of Disquiet, a masterpiece beyond comparison

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811226943
• Artikelnr.: 59591733

Autorenporträt

Fernando Pessoa (18881935), the Portuguese poet, literary critic, and essayist, is one of the most significant literary figures of the twentieth century. He wrote not only under his own name but under over a hundred others (including Alexander Search, Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, and Bernardo Soares).