The Book of Disquietude (Aspects of Portugal) - Softcover

Pessoa, Fernando

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1878818651 ISBN 13: 9781878818652

Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press, 1996

Synopsis

The "Book of Disquietude" is the "factless autobiography" of "Bernardo Soares, " one of the 72 literary personae with which Portugal's greatest poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) created the theater of himself. Conceived in 1916, Soares is, Pessoa declared, "amutilation" of his own personality.

About this title

From the Publisher:

5 1/4 x 8 1/2 trim. LC 97-179124

About the Author:

FERNANDO PESSOA was born in Lisbon in 1888. As a young man, he dropped out of university and made his living by translating, writing in avant-garde reviews, and drafting business letters in English and French. He began publishing criticism in 1912, creative prose in 1913, and poetry in 1914. He published his works under a variety of alter egos he called heteronyms--Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, and Alvaro de Campos, and nearly seventy others. He died in Lisbon, in 1935.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1878818651
• ISBN 13: 9781878818652
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 340