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.