Octavio Paz
Anglomaniac, myopic, courteous, evasive, dressed darkly, reticent and agreeable, a cosmopolitan who preaches nationalism, solemn investigator of futile things, humorist who never smiles but chills our blood, inventor of other poets and destroyer of himself, author of paradoxes as clear as water and, as water, dizzying: 'to pretend is to know yourself,' mysterious man who does not cultivate mystery, mysterious as the mid-day moon, taciturn phantom of the Portuguese mid-day - who is Pessoa?
The New York Times
Pessoa is among the modernist giants in whose shadows we live and who made our century one of extraordinary poetic richness.
Book Description
complete edition Pessoa's posthumous masterpiece
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Portugese
From the Publisher
5 1/4 x 8 1/2 trim. LC 97-179124
The Book of Disquietude by Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon FROM THE PUBLISHER
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 created the theater of himself. Conceived in 1916, "Soares" is, Pessoa declares, "a mutilation" of his own personality. This is the first, and only complete, English edition.
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