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The Book of Disquiet

AUTHOR Boyd, William; Pessoa, Fernando; Costa, Margaret Jull
PUBLISHER Serpent's Tail (01/18/2011)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Paperback)

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"Readers with a particular interest in modernism will find this work indispensable."--Publishers Weekly

"Pessoa's amazing personality is as beguiling and mysterious as his unique poetic output."--William Boyd

A self-deprecating reflection on the sheer distance between the loftiness of feelings and the humdrum reality of life, The Book of Disquiet is a classic of existentialist literature.

Fernando Pessoa, one of the founders of modernism, was born in Lisbon in 1888. Most of Pessoa's writing was not published during his lifetime: The Book of Disquiet was first published in Portugal in 1982.

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ISBN-13: 9781846687358
ISBN-10: 1846687357
Binding: Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 272
Carton Quantity: 56
Product Dimensions: 5.00 x 0.80 x 7.70 inches
Weight: 0.52 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Price on Product, Maps, Illustrated
Country of Origin: GB
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Fiction | Literary
Dewey Decimal: FIC
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"Readers with a particular interest in modernism will find this work indispensable."--Publishers Weekly

"Pessoa's amazing personality is as beguiling and mysterious as his unique poetic output."--William Boyd

A self-deprecating reflection on the sheer distance between the loftiness of feelings and the humdrum reality of life, The Book of Disquiet is a classic of existentialist literature.

Fernando Pessoa, one of the founders of modernism, was born in Lisbon in 1888. Most of Pessoa's writing was not published during his lifetime: The Book of Disquiet was first published in Portugal in 1982.

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Foreword by: Boyd, William
WILLIAM BOYD is the author of A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; RestlessM/em>, winner of the Costa Novel Award; and Ordinary Thunderstorms, among other books. He lives in London, England. Visit him online at williamboyd.co.uk.
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Translator: Costa, Margaret Jull
MARGARET JULL COSTA has established herself as the premier translator of Portuguese literature into English today.
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