Fernando Pessoa The Book of Disquiet Paperback

Fernando Pessoas The Book of Disquiet is a modernist masterwork that has now taken on a similar iconic status to Ulysses, The Trial or In Search of Lost Time. This complete and unabridged edition published in Penguin Modern Classics is edited and translated with an introduction by Richard ZenithThe best Englishlanguage version we are likely to see for a long time, if ever The GuardianWinner of the Calouste Gulbenkian Translation Prize for Portuguese TranslationFernando Pessoa, strictly speaking, doesnt exist, so claimed Alvaro de Campos, one of the heteronyms, fullyrealised substitute personalities invented by Fernando Pessoa to spare himself the trouble of living real life. In this extraordinary book, the putative factless autobiography of an accountant named Bernardo Soares, Fernando Pessoa explores and dismantles the nature of memory, identity, time and narrative, creating one of the greatest but also the strangest modernist texts. An assembly of sometimeslinked fragments, The Book of Disquiet is a mesmerising, haunting novel without parallel in any other culture. This edition includes notes on the reconstruction of the text, appendices containing material omitted from the final version and letters which Pessoa intended to incorporate into the text. This edition also includes a table of the heteronyms used by Pessoa in his writing. Fernando Pessoa (1888 1935) was born in Lisbon but went to live in Durban, South Africa, at the age of seven. He returned to Lisbon in 1905.... | Fernando Pessoa The Book of Disquiet Paperback