![]() It is sometimes said that the four greatest Portuguese poets of modern times are Fernando Pessoa. A monumental literary event, this exciting, new, complete edition spans Fernando Pessoa’s entire writing life.įernando António Nogueira Pessoa was a poet and writer. This existential masterpiece was first published in Portuguese in 1982, forty-seven years after Pessoa’s death. Most of the texts in The Book of Disquiet are written under the semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares, an assistant bookkeeper. Now, for the first time the texts are presented chronologically, including over 150 pages that have never appeared in any previous English edition. An “autobiography” or “diary” containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions. The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa’s greatest literary achievement. ![]() ![]() For the first time―and in the best translation ever―the complete Book of Disquiet, a masterpiece beyond comparison ![]()
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