The Book of Disquiet

Written by Fernando Pessoa · Translated by Margaret Jull Costa

A bookkeeper's diary unveils profound existential musings and timeless questions.

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Dive into the introspective world of Bernardo Soares, an assistant bookkeeper, as he navigates life's profound questions in a diary filled with melancholy and wisdom. This complete edition of 'The Book of Disquiet' offers a chronological journey through Fernando Pessoa's existential musings, revealing the depths of human thought and emotion. What truths will you uncover in this timeless masterpiece?

From the publisher

The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa’s greatest literary achievement. An “autobiography” or “diary” 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’s death. A monumental literary event, this exciting, new, complete edition spans Fernando Pessoa’s entire writing life.

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