Descrição

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, a selection, introduction and selection by Diego Giménez, translation by Lauren Elstob, illustrations by Marta Nunes and with a foreword by João Costa, published by Shantarin.

Dimensions:

142 x 202 x 8 mm

Paperback, 158 pages

Did you know that it was in 1991 that the first translations of The Book of Disquiet were published, versions by Margaret Jull Costa (Serpent’s Tail), Alfred Mac-Adam (Pantheon Books, New York), Iain Watson (Quartet Books, London) and the complete version by Richard Zenith (Carcanet)?

Buy now or give this English edition of The Book of Disquiet as a gift, a fragmentary work of prose that immortalised Fernando Pessoa and his semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares, an assistant bookkeeper in the city of Lisbon.