About the Book: The Book of Disquiet
With its astounding hardcover reviews Richard Zeniths new complete translation
of The Book of Disquiet has now taken on a similar iconic status to Ulysses, The
Trial or In Search of Lost Time as one of the greatest but also strangest
modernist texts. Featuring an assembly of sometimes linked fragments, it is a
mesmerising, haunting novel without parallel in any other culture.
About the Author: Fernando Pessoa
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