# Book of Disquiet

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- Authors: [Fernando Pessoa](https://www.bookquiver.com/fernando-pessoa), [Jerónimo Pizarro](https://www.bookquiver.com/jeronimo-pizarro)
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing
- ISBN: 978-08-1122-693-6
- Published: 2017-08-29
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

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.