Fernando Pessoa
The Book of Disquiet
New Directions, 2017. Translation by Margaret Jull Costa of "Livro do desassossego" (Tinta-da-china, 2013). Edited by Jeronimo Pizarro. 9780811226936 xi/468 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is bound in multi-color cloth, with illustration depicting author on front cover. Facsimile of author's signature appears in the lower outside corner of front cover. Book is in excellent condition, with solid binding, and clean, bright interior.
""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."