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No cover — Fernando Pessoa: The book of disquiet (1998, Exact Change)

276 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 1998 by Exact Change.

ISBN:: 978-1-878972-27-9
OCLC Number:: 40731736

The Book of Disquiet is the autobiography of Bernardo Soares, whom Pessoa described as a 'semiheteronym' because "his personality is not different from mine, rather a simple mutilation of it." But Soares never completed his book; it was discovered after Pessoa's death, on disordered scraps of paper in a trunk.

Nearly fifty years later, The Book of Disquiet was finally published, but because any edition or translation of this work must choose a sequence for its entries, each presents a substantially different text. Alfred Mac Adam's translation has been widely reviewed as the most accurate and vivid in English.

The Book of Disquiet is the autobiography of Bernardo Soares, whom Pessoa described as a 'semiheteronym' because "his personality is not different from mine, rather a simple mutilation of it." But Soares never completed his book; it was discovered after Pessoa's death, on disordered scraps of paper in a trunk.

Nearly fifty years later, The Book of Disquiet was finally published, but because any edition or translation of this work must choose a sequence for its entries, each presents a substantially different text. Alfred Mac Adam's translation has been widely reviewed as the most accurate and vivid in English.

18 editions

Ramirenko reviewed Libro del desasosiego : compuesto por Bernardo Soares, ayudante de tenedor de libros en la ciudad de Lisboa by Fernando Pessoa

Libro del desasosiego

5 stars

Hay pocos libros que, literalmente, puedan acompañarte toda una vida, y este lo es.

Creo que es un error intentar leerlo de un tirón. Lo mejor es dejar el libro en una mesa, a la vista, agarrarlo de vez en cuando, leer una o dos anotaciones en un momento en que te sientas receptivo y dejarse llevar por esa indescriptible prosa poética vanguardista y melancólica. El libro debe quedarse en esa mesa durante toda tu vida. Quizá te guste señalar aquellos textos que se te hacen especialmente bellos, para que en una segunda (y sucesivas) vueltas al libro puedas ir directamente a ellos.

Creo que nadie en la historia de la literatura ha sido capaz de hacer algo tan único con las palabras.

Subjects

Pessoa, Fernando, -- 1888-1935.
Poets, Portuguese -- 20th century -- Biography.