The Book of Disquiet

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Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet is a modernist masterwork that has taken on iconic status alongside Ulysses, The Trial, and In Search of Lost Time. This complete and unabridged edition is edited and translated with an introduction by Richard Zenith. 'The best English-language version we are likely to see for a long time, if ever' — The Guardian 'Fernando Pessoa, strictly speaking, doesn't exist,' so claimed Alvaro de Campos, one of the 'heteronyms'—fully-realized 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 sometimes-linked fragments, The Book of Disquiet is a mesmerizing, 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.