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| Genre/Form: | Autobiography Biography Autobiographies Biographies |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Fernando Pessoa; Fernando Pessoa |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Fernando Pessoa; Jerónimo Pizarro; Margaret Jull Costa |
| ISBN: | 1781258643 9781781258644 |
| OCLC Number: | 1022080589 |
| Description: | xvi, 413 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents: | $a Introduction by Margaret Jull Costa -- Editor's Note by Jeronimo Pizarro -- The Book of Disquiet First Phase -- Manuscript Facsimiles -- The Book of Disquiet Second Phase -- Manuscript and typescript facsimiles -- Appendices to The Book of Disquiet -- Index of first lines. |
| Responsibility: | Fernando Pessoa ; edited by Jerónimo Pizarro ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. |
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The very book to read when you wake at 3am and can't get back to sleep - mysteries, misgivings, fears and dreams and wonderment. Like nothing else. -- Philip Pullman In a time which celebrates fame, success, stupidity, convenience and noise, here is the perfect antidote -- John Lanchester * Daily Telegraph * A complete masterpiece, the sort of book one makes friends with and cannot bear to be parted with -- Paul Bailey * Independent * A meandering, melancholic series of reveries and meditations ... beguiling and mysterious -- William Boyd It's hard to explain how this modernist hymnal of boredom, fatigue, dejection and jadedness is so beautiful and life affirming -- Mike McCormack * New Statesman Books of the Year * To read and then contemplate him is to be lifted a little bit above the earth in a floating bubble. One becomes both of the world and not of it. There's no one like him, apart from all of us. -- Nicholas Lezard * Guardian * An odd, occasionally exasperating and sometimes beautiful book and one that will be your friend at 3am on a sleepless night. -- Sophia Martelli * Observer * Fernando Pessoa was simply one of the best 20th-century writers ever... captivating... a series of beautifully wistful reminiscences, diary entries and aphoristic snippets... we recommend it like crazy. Pick one up and open it anywhere and we promise you'll be richly rewarded. -- Stuart Hammond * Dazed and Confused * Gorgeous ... utterly original * The New York Times * A reading experience unlike any other ... you will never forget it, or stop waiting to return to it -- Chris Power * New Statesman * Read more...
