For the first time鈥攁nd in the best translation ever鈥攖he complete Book of Disquiet, a masterpiece beyond comparison The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa鈥檚 greatest literary achievement. An 鈥渁utobiography鈥 or 鈥渄iary鈥 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鈥檚 death. A monumental literary event, this exciting, new, complete edition spans Fernando Pessoa鈥檚 entire writing life.
