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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... Read Full Overview

"Readers with a particular interest in modernism will find this work indispensable."--Publishers Weekly

"Pessoa's amazing personality is as beguiling and mysterious as his unique poetic output."--William Boyd

A self-deprecating reflection on the sheer distance... Read Full Overview

Livro do Desassossego: Composto por Bernardo Soares, ajudante de guarda-livros na cidade de Lisboa is a work by Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), signed under the semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares.With a preface by Fernando Pessoa, orthonym, the book is a fragmentary lifetime project,... Read Full Overview

En el "Libro del desasosiego" estamos ante una profusi n in dita de im genes que operan como un calidoscopio, compuesto de fragmentos, en el que la sensibilidad y la lucidez de su autor se hermanan para mostrarnos un universo de una extraordinaria complejidad humana. Uno de los... Read Full Overview

"There is a distinguished mind at work beneath the totally acceptable dullness of clerking. The mind is that of Pessoa. We must be given the chance to learn more about him."-Anthony Burgess, "Observer" Seated at his desk in the Lisbon's Rua dos Douradores, Bernardo Soares, an... Read Full Overview

Atribu do ao seu ort nimo Bernardo Soares, este livro apresenta-se como a grande prosa de Fernando Pessoa, onde este heter nimo o retrato de um assistente de contabilidade numa Lisboa decr pita. Atrav s de um tom melanc lico, ele narra suas inquieta es e experi ncias por meio... Read Full Overview

First published in 1982, this is the "factless autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of the 72 literary personae or "heteronyms" with which Fernando Pessoa created the theatre of his absence. The circular text returns again and again to a protagonist desperate to find out who... Read Full Overview