The book of disquiet
Published for the first time 50 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 Ze...
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| 100 | 1 | |a Pessoa, Fernando, |d 1888-1935. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The book of disquiet / |c Fernando Pessoa ; edited and translated by Richard Zenith. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Penguin Group, |c 2002. | ||
| 300 | |a 508 pages | ||
| 520 | |a Published for the first time 50 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. | ||
| 520 | 0 | |a Fernando Pessoa was many authors 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 When he died in 1935, Pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable pages that make up his posthumous masterpiece, The Book of Disquiet, an astonishing work that, in George Steiner's words, "gives to Lisbon the haunting spell of Joyce's Dublin or Kafka's Prague."--Publisher's description | |
| 655 | |a Autobiography. | ||
| 655 | |a Creative nonfiction. | ||
| 700 | 1 | 0 | |a Zenith, Richard. |
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