The Book of Disquiet - Couverture souple

Pessoa, Fernand

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1878972278 ISBN 13 : 9781878972279

Editeur : Exact Change,U.S., 2010

Synopsis

Pessoa's most famous work depicts a vast interior landscape laced with daily minutiae and aphoristic brilliance

The eternal mystique of Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) stems largely from his practice of writing under heteronyms. More than just nom de plumes, Pessoa's heteronyms came with distinct biographies, careers, life spans, even horoscopes. In The Book of Disquiet, Pessoa came as close as he ever would to autobiography. Left on disordered scraps of paper in a trunk, the fragments that make up The Book of Disquiet record in disjunct entries a vast interior landscape and daily minutiae, making for a discontinuous, gently unhinged monologue in daybook form.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) was born in Lisbon and brought up in Durban, South Africa. He returned to Lisbon in 1905. A prolific writer, ascribing his work to a variety of personas or heteronyms, Pessoa published little in his lifetime and supported himself by working as a commercial translator. Although acknowledged as an intellectual and a poet, his literary genius went largely unrecognised until after his death

Présentation de l'éditeur

With its astounding hardcover reviews Richard Zenith's new complete translation of THE BOOK OF DISQUIET has now taken on a similar iconic status to ULYSSES, THE TRIAL or IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME as one of the greatest but also strangest modernist texts. An assembly of sometimes linked fragments, it is a mesmerising, haunting 'novel' without parallel in any other culture.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Exact Change,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1878972278
• ISBN 13: 9781878972279
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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