The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

For the first time―and in the best translation ever―the complete Book of Disquiet, a masterpiece beyond comparison

The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa’s greatest literary achievement. An “autobiography” or “diary” containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions. Now, for the first time the texts are presented chronologically, in a complete English edition by master translator Margaret Jull Costa. Most of the texts in The Book of Disquiet are written under the semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares, an assistant bookkeeper. This existential masterpiece was first published in Portuguese in 1982, forty-seven years after Pessoa’s death. A monumental literary event, this exciting, new, complete edition spans Fernando Pessoa’s entire writing life.

• A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems
• The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics)
• The Anatomy of Melancholy (New York Review Books Classics)
• Complete Stories
• Journey to the End of the Night
• The Tunnel
• Philosophical Essays: A Critical Edition
• Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Penguin Classics)
• 2666: A Novel
• Água Viva (New Directions Books)