ISBN: 9780811226936
Editorial: New
Autor: Pessoa, Fernando
Año de edición: 2017
Edición: 1
N° Páginas: 488
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: 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. Críticas A favorite book: in its determined melancholy, its gentle audacity, and in its insistence on renunciation, frustration, and solitude as the nectars of life, it is almost scarily whole. *The Book of Disquiet* is a diary, but of a self that is several and precarious, and always more potential than actual. Its floating boundaries expand and contract, lazily animated by 'the horror of making our soul a fact.' It is in *The Book of Disquiet*--translated, beautifully, by Margaret Jull Costa--that Pessoa found himself most truly. The system of heteronyms allowed him to disown his words even as he wrote them. The heteronyms formed a small society of alter egos, 'a whole world of friends inside me.'--Benjamin Kunkel "The Believer" (8/23/2017 12:00:00 AM)A meandering, melancholic series of reveries and meditations. Pessoa's amazing personality is as beguiling and mysterious as his unique poetic output.--William Boyd (8/23/2017 12:00:00 AM)A triumph of scholarship and translation.--Marcela Valdes "Publisher Weekly (Starred Review)" (9/26/2017 12:00:00 AM)As addictive, and endearing, as Borges and Calvino.-- "The Washington Post Book World" (8/23/2017 12:00:00 AM)As searing as Rilke or Mandelstam.-- "The New York Times Book Review"Complete edition of a haunted autobiographical novel--or is it a fictionalized autobiography?--that has emerged as an existentialist classic in the 80-plus years since its author's death. Born in Lisbon in 1888, Pessoa might have taught J.D. Salinger and Thomas Pynchon a thing or two about anonymity. He wrote prolifically in three languages but published relatively little, and he hid behind assumed names and identities, some 75 of them in all, which he called 'heteronyms.' The present volume is a case in point, written over the course of many years in the person of two such assumed names, Vicente Guedes and, later, Bernardo Soares. As for Guedes, Pessoa opens, 'This book is not by him, it is him': it is a catalog of Kierkegaard-ian moods, of fears and loathings and the constant presence of death in a fundamentally tragic world. 'I failed life even before I had lived it, because even as I dreamed it, I failed to see its appeal, ' writes Pessoa, and he proceeds to make sun-splashed Lisbon a gray and gloomy place. Though often somber, Pessoa is rarely tiresome; he reflects interestingly on such things as the development of science and aesthetics, the pleasures of wasting time ('For those subtle connoisseurs of sensations, there is a kind of handbook on inertia, which includes recipes for every kind of lucidity'), and, always, mortality: 'We are born dead, we live dead, and we enter death already dead.' Readers with a liking for Walter Benjamin and Miguel de Unamuno, Pessoa's intellectual kin, will find much of interest in Pessoa's pages...-- "Kirkus Review" (6/6/2017 12:00:00 AM)Endlessly ponderable.-- "Electric Literature" (9/26/2017 12:00:00 AM)Extraordinary--a haunting mosaic of dreams, autobiographical vignettes, shards of literary theory and criticisms and maxims.--George Steiner (6/6/2017 12:00:00 AM)In a time which celebrates fame, success, stupidity, convenience, and noise, here is the perfect antidote.--John Lancaster "Dail
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Pessoa, Fernando
- Editorial: New
- N° Paginas: 488
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
