The Book of Disquiet - Couverture souple

Pessoa, Fernando

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1852427582 ISBN 13 : 9781852427580

Editeur : Serpent's Tail, 2002

Synopsis

'In the middle of the conversations with myself that make up this book, I often feel a sudden need to talk to someone else, so I address the light hovering, as it does now, above the roofs of houses...' Seated at his desk in the Lisbon's Rua Dos Douradores, Bernardo Soares, an assistant book-keeper, writes his diary - a self-deprecating reflection on the sheer distance between the loftiness of his feelings and the humdrum reality of his everyday life. This is the first translation of a classic of existential literature - a book acknowledged by the critics as 'the most beautiful diary of the century' and voted by a panel of leading writers as one of the top 100 books of all time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Fernando Pessoa, one of the founders of modernism, was born in Lisbon in 1888. He grew up in Durban, South Africa, where his stepfather was Portuguese consul. He returned to Lisbon in 1905 and worked as a clerk in an import-export company until his death in 1935. Most of Pessoa's writing was not published during his lifetime; The Book of Disquiet first came out in Portugal in 1982. Since its first publication, it has been hailed as a classic.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Serpent's Tail
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1852427582
• ISBN 13: 9781852427580
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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• Personne responsable: non disponible