The book of disquiet
- London : Penguin Books, 2015
- xxxix, 603 p. ; 20 cm
- Penguin Classics .
The Book of Disquiet is the autobiography of Bernardo Soares, whom Pessoa described as a 'semiheteronym' because "his personality is not different from mine, rather a simple mutilation of it." But Soares never completed his book; it was discovered after Pessoa's death, on disordered scraps of paper in a trunk. Nearly fifty years later, The Book of Disquiet was finally published, but because any edition or translation of this work must choose a sequence for its entries, each presents a substantially different text. Alfred Mac Adam's translation has been widely reviewed as the most accurate and vivid in English.
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Autobiographical fiction Pessoa, Fernando, 1888-1935 20th century Fiction