{"product_id":"the-book-of-disquiet-isbn-9780141183046","title":"The Book of Disquiet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe prizewinning, complete and unabridged translation—“the best English-language version we are likely to see for a long time, if ever” (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e)—of a work of unclassifiable genius: the crowning achievement of Portugal’s modern master\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdited, Translated, and with an Introduction by Richard Zenith, the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist \u003ci\u003ePessoa: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWinner of the Calouste Gulbenkian Translation Prize for Portuguese Translation\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology, and horoscope. When he died in 1935, Pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable pages that make up his posthumous masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Disquiet\u003c\/i\u003e, an astonishing work that, in George Steiner's words, \"gives to Lisbon the haunting spell of Joyce's Dublin or Kafka's Prague.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Published for the first time some fifty years after his death, this unique collection of short, aphoristic paragraphs comprises the \"autobiography\" of Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa's alternate selves. Part intimate diary, part prose poetry, part descriptive narrative, captivatingly translated by Richard Zenith, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Disquiet\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the greatest works of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Pessoa is a genius.” —André Aciman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction   vii\u003cbr\u003eNotes on the Text and Translation   xxvii\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements   xxxii\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Book Of Disquiet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ePreface by Fernando Pessoa   3\u003cbr\u003eA Factless Autobiography   9\u003cbr\u003eA Disquiet Anthology   393\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAppendix I: Texts Citing the Name of Vicente Guedes\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e  465\u003cbr\u003eAppendix II: Two Letters   467\u003cbr\u003eAppendix III: Reflections on The Book of Disquiet from Pessoa's Writings   471\u003cbr\u003eNotes   477\u003cbr\u003eTable of Heteronyms    505\u003c\/b\u003e“I can’t tell which of the three English-language editions of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Disquiet\u003c\/i\u003e I’ve read . . . most accurately conveys the style and spirit of Pessoa, but judging the English alone, Zenith’s translation is most compelling. . . . I want Pessoa to be as great as the version Zenith presents.” —\u003cb\u003eChris Power, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A Modernist touchstone . . . no one has explored alternative selves with Pessoa’s mixture of determination and abandon . . . In a time which celebrates fame, success, stupidity, convenience and noise, here is the perfect antidote, a hymn of praise to obscurity, failure, intelligence, difficulty, and silence.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “His prose masterpiece . . . Richard Zenith has done an heroic job in producing the best English-language version we are likely to see for a long time, if ever.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eThe Book of Disquiet \u003c\/i\u003ewas left in a trunk which might never have been opened. The gods must be thanked that it was. I love this strange work of fiction and I love the inventive, hard-drinking, modest man who wrote it in obscurity.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndependent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Fascinating, even gripping stuff . . . a strangely addictive pleasure.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Must rank as the supreme assault on authorship in modern European literature . . . readers of Zenith’s edition will find it supersedes all others in its delicacy of style, rigorous scholarship and sympathy for Pessoa’s fractured sensibility . . . the self-revelation of a disoriented and half-disintegrated soul that is all the more compelling because the author himself is an invention . . . Long before postmodernism became an academic industry, Pessoa lived deconstruction.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Extraordinary . . . a haunting mosaic of dreams, autobiographical vignettes, shards of literary theory and criticism and maxims.”\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Pessoa’s rapid prose, snatched in flight and restlessly suggestive, remains haunting, often startling, like the touch of a vibrating wire, elusive and persistent like the poetry . . . there is nobody like him.”\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “This superb edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Disquiet\u003c\/i\u003e is . . . a masterpiece.”  —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I plan to use this book every year in my course at Yale. Thanks for making it available.”\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e—\u003cb\u003eK. David Jackson, Yale University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFernando Pessoa\u003c\/b\u003e (1888–1935) was born in Lisbon and brought up in Durban, South Africa. He returned to Lisbon in 1905. A prolific writer, ascribing his work to a variety of personas or heteronyms, Pessoa published little in his lifetime and supported himself by working as a commercial translator. Although acknowledged as an intellectual and a poet, his literary genius went largely unrecognized until after his death. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRichard Zenith\u003c\/b\u003e (editor, translator, introducer) lives in Lisbon, where he works as a freelance writer, translator, and critic. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003ePessoa: A Biography.\u003c\/i\u003e His translations include Galician-Portuguese troubadour poetry; novels by Antonio Lobo Antunes; Pessoa's \u003ci\u003eA Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eFernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation; and João Cabral de Melo Neto's \u003ci\u003eEducation by Stone: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Academy of American Poets’ Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eIn 2012, Zenith was awarded Portugal’s Pessoa Prize. ","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299711799525,"sku":"NP9780141183046","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780141183046.jpg?v=1767738459","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-book-of-disquiet-isbn-9780141183046","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}