TY - BOOK AU - Pessoa,Fernando AU - Pizarro,Jerónimo AU - Costa,Margaret Jull TI - The book of disquiet SN - 9780811226936 PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - New Directions Publishing Corporation KW - Pessoa, Fernando, KW - Poets, Portuguese KW - 20th century KW - Biography KW - Biographies KW - lcgft N1 - Originally published in Portuguese as Livro do desassossego; Includes bibliographical references; The Book of Disquiet (First Phase) -- The Book of Disquiet (Second Phase): From The Book of Disquiet composed by Bernardo Soares, assistant book-keeper in the city of Lisbon N2 - 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. -- ER -