The Book of Disquiet The Complete Edition (9781781258644). Most of the texts in The Book of Disquiet are written under the semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares, an assistant bookkeeper. The definitive edition of the much-loved classic. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 December 2019. Written over the course of Fernando Pessoa's life, it was first published in 1982, pieced together from the thousands of individual manuscript pages left behind by Pessoa after his death in 1935. Sorry, there was a problem saving your cookie preferences. The Modernist master Fernando Pessoa’s work remained largely unnoticed during his lifetime. | Jerónimo Pizarro - Academia.edu. : Volume 1, The very book to read when you wake at 3am and can't get back to sleep - mysteries, misgivings, fears and dreams and wonderment. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Conditions apply. Narrated principally by an assistant bookkeeper named Bernardo Soares - an alias of sorts for Pessoa himself - The Book of Disquiet is 'the autobiobraphy of someone who never existed', a mosaic of dreams, of hope and despair; a hymn to the streets and cafés of 1930s Lisbon, and an extraordinary record of the inner life of one of the century's most important writers. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Written over the course of Fernando Pessoa's life, The Book of Disquiet was first published in 1982, pieced together from the thousands of individual manuscript pages left behind after his death in 1935. Of these four, his greatest creation--and perhaps the heteronym closest to Pessoa's self--is Bernardo Soares, the "author" of The Book of Disquiet. Like nothing else. He returned to Lisbon in 1905 and worked as a clerk in an import-export company until his death in 1935. The Book of Disquiet is a collection of epiphanic journal or diary prose kept by Pessoa and found decades after his death. By Chris Power. The Book of Disquiet The Complete Edition. (Philip Pullman), The definitive edition of the much-loved classic. One becomes both of the world and not of it. No catches, no fine print just unconditional book love and reading recommendations for your students and children. The very book to read when you wake at 3am and can't get back to sleep - mysteries, misgivings, fears and dreams and wonderment. I’ve been drawn to existentialism — which I understand to be the recognition that life lacks meaning, rendering the human condition a function of mere existence — since reading Sartre, Camus and Kierkegaard years ago. The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa’s greatest literary achievement. Most of the texts in The Book of Disquiet are written under the semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares, an assistant bookkeeper. About the book. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 September 2019. Now this fragmentary modernist masterpiece appears in a major new edition that unites Margaret Jull Costa's celebrated translation with the most complete version of the text ever produced. Hardcover, Pengui..., 2015 The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition Paperback – 29 August 2018 by Margaret Jull Costa (Translator), Fernando Pessoa (Author) 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings See all 10 formats and editions The prose is truly some of the most gorgeous musings about everyday life and existence that any reader could ever find. Home The Saint Bookstore The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology. 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