The Book of Disquietude [Fernando Pessoa]

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The Book of Disquietude

Fernando Pessoa

The Sheep Meadow Press, NY. 1996. First Sheep Mead Press paperback edition.A price tag is affixed to the rear, otherwise shockingly clean. An excellent copy.

From the publisher:

"First published in 1982, this is the "factless autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of the 72 literary personae or "heteronyms" with which Fernando Pessoa created the theatre of his absence. The circular text returns again and again to a protagonist desperate to find out who he is."

If you haven't read this one, I can't recommend it enough. This is an interesting early 90s edition translated by Richard Zenith. Despite the awkward title, the prose is rendered in all it's enigmatic glory within. A nice change up from that pretty ugly New Directions edition.