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.