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The Book of Disquiet (Penguin - Paperback, by Pessoa Fernando; Zenith - Good
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780141183046
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0141183047
ISBN-13
9780141183046
eBay Product ID (ePID)
127321744
Product Key Features
Book Title
Book of Disquiet
Number of Pages
544 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Classics, Literary, Biographical
Publication Year
2002
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
12.4 Oz
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-035485
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"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." -- The Daily Telegraph "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." -- The Guardian " The Book of Disquiet was 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." -- Independent "Fascinating, even gripping stuff . . . a strangely addictive pleasure." -- Sunday Times "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." -- New Statesman "Extraordinary . . . a haunting mosaic of dreams, autobiographical vignettes, shards of literary theory and criticism and maxims." -- The Observer "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." -- New York Review of Books "This superb edition of The Book of Disquiet is . . . a masterpiece." -- The Daily Telegraph "I plan to use this book every year in my course at Yale. Thanks for making it available." --K. David Jackson, Yale University, "I can't tell which of the three English-language editions of The Book of Disquiet 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." -- Chris Power, New Statesman "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." -- The Daily Telegraph "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." -- The Guardian " The Book of Disquiet was 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." -- Independent "Fascinating, even gripping stuff . . . a strangely addictive pleasure." -- Sunday Times "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." -- New Statesman "Extraordinary . . . a haunting mosaic of dreams, autobiographical vignettes, shards of literary theory and criticism and maxims." -- The Observer "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." -- The New York Review of Books "This superb edition of The Book of Disquiet is . . . a masterpiece." -- The Daily Telegraph "I plan to use this book every year in my course at Yale. Thanks for making it available." -- K. David Jackson, Yale University, "This superb edition of The Book of Disquiet is . . . a masterpiece." - John Lanchester , The Daily Telegraph "Pessoa's rapid prose, snatched in flight and restlessly suggestive, remains haunting, often startling. . . . There is nobody like him." - W. S. Merwin , The New York Review of Books "Extraordinary . . . a haunting mosaic of dreams, autobiographical vignettes, shards of literary theory and criticism and maxims." - George Steiner , The Observer "I plan to use this book every year in my course at Yale. Thanks for making it available." - K. David Jackson , Yale University , "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." -- The Daily Telegraph "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." -- The Guardian " The Book of Disquiet was 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." -- Independent "Fascinating, even gripping stuff . . . a strangely addictive pleasure." -- Sunday Times "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." -- New Statesman "Extraordinary . . . a haunting mosaic of dreams, autobiographical vignettes, shards of literary theory and criticism and maxims." -- The Observer "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." -- New York Review of Books "This superb edition of The Book of Disquiet is . . . a masterpiece." -- The Daily Telegraph "I plan to use this book every year in my course at Yale. Thanks for making it available." --K. David Jackson, Yale University
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Grade To
UP
Dewey Decimal
869.1/41 B
Table Of Content
Introduction vii Notes on the Text and Translation xxvii Acknowledgements xxxii The Book Of Disquiet Preface by Fernando Pessoa 3 A Factless Autobiography 9 A Disquiet Anthology 393 Appendix I: Texts Citing the Name of Vicente Guedes 465 Appendix II: Two Letters 467 Appendix III: Reflections on The Book of Disquiet from Pessoa's Writings 471 Notes 477 Table of Heteronyms 505
Synopsis
The prizewinning, complete and unabridged translation--"the best English-language version we are likely to see for a long time, if ever" ( The Guardian )--of a work of unclassifiable genius: the crowning achievement of Portugal's modern master Edited, Translated, and with an Introduction by Richard Zenith, the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Pessoa: A Biography Winner of the Calouste Gulbenkian Translation Prize for Portuguese Translation A Penguin Classic 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, 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." 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, The Book of Disquiet is one of the greatest works of the twentieth century. "Pessoa is a genius." --André Aciman, The prizewinning, complete and unabridged translation--"the best English-language version we are likely to see for a long time, if ever" ( The Guardian )--of a work of unclassifiable genius: the crowning achievement of Portugal's modern master Winner of the Calouste Gulbenkian Translation Prize for Portuguese Translation 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, 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." 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, The Book of Disquiet is one of the greatest works of the twentieth century.
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PQ9261.P417Z46213
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