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The Book of Disquiet
PJH56817Allen Lane 2001. Ownership Signature on endpaper VG bright tight copy in publishers cloth in very slightly rubbed and creased dustjacket. 1st edition 1st issue. When Fernando Pessoa died in 1935 he left behind a trunk containing over 25000 items a vast collection of poems fragments letters journals. These pieces were ascribed to a variety of writers - the heteronyms or assumed identities Pessoa had created over the course of his extravagant written life. Attributed to the heteronym Bernado Soares THE BOOK OF DISQUIET is perhaps best described as an 'anti-literature'. Written in exquisite painful detail this is a collection of fragments an 'autobiography of one who never lived'. Richard Zenith has drawn on his own intimate knowledge of the original manuscripts to produce a beautiful and captivating translation of one of the greatest works of the twentieth century. ISBN 0713995270 Allen Lane 2001 hardcover
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