The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics) - Penguin Modern Classics
The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics) - Penguin Modern Classics
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Published:
30 May, 2002
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780141183046 |
| ISBN10 | 0141183047 |
| Number Of Pages | 544 |
| Item Weight | 389 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 24 x 195 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Penguin Classics |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | New Ed |
Media Reviews
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
Author's Bio
Fernando Pessoa (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 unrecognised until after his death