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Product Identifiers

PublisherSerpent's Tail The Limited

ISBN-101852422041

ISBN-139781852422042

eBay Product ID (ePID)1198223

Product Key Features

Book TitleBook of Disquiet

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1998

TopicGeneral, Literary

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorFernando Pessoa

Book SeriesExtraordinary Classics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight11.2 Oz

Item Length5.3 in

Item Width8.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN91-061197

Dewey Edition21

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews'This book has moved me more than anything I have read in years. I have rarely encountered such exhilarating lugubriousness... A complete masterpiece, the sort of book one makes friends with and cannot bear to be parted with. Boredom informs it, but not boringly. Pessoa loved the minutiae of what we care to deem the ordinary life, and that love enriches and deepens his art. Paul Bailey, The Independent ?It could not have been written in England: there is too much thought racing hopelessly around. The elegance of the style, well conveyed in what seems to be a more than adequate translation, is an important component and a very ironic one. The diary disturbs from beginning to end? There is a distinguished mind at work beneath the totally acceptable dullness of clerking. The mind is that of Pessoa? Anthony Burgess, Observer

Dewey Decimal869.1/41 B

Synopsis'In the middle of the conversations with myself that make up this book, I often feel a sudden need to talk to someone else, so I address the light hovering, as it does now, above the roofs of houses.' Seated at his desk in the Lisbon's Rua Dos Douradores, Bernardo Soares, an assistant book-keeper, writes his diary - a self-deprecating reflection on the sheer distance between the loftiness of his feelings and the humdrum reality of his everyday life. This is the first translation of a classic of existential literature - a book acknowledged by the critics as 'the most beautiful diary of the century.', In the middle of the conversations with myself that make up this book, I often feel a sudden need to talk to someone else, so I address the light hovering, as it does now, above the roofs of houses...' Seated at his desk in the Lisbon's Rua Dos Douradores, Bernardo Soares, an assistant book-keeper, writes his diary - a self-deprecating reflection on the sheer distance between the loftiness of his feelings and the humdrum reality of his everyday life. This is the first translation of a classic of existential literature - a book acknowledged by the critics as 'the most beautiful diary of the century.