THE BOOK OF DISQUIET
Fernando Pessoa, ; trans. from the Portuguese by Richard Zenith. . Penguin, $15 (544pp) ISBN 978-0-14-118304-6
When Pessoa died in 1935, a few years short of 50, he left behind a trunk of mostly unpublished writing in a variety of languages; his Lisbon publishers and variously translators are still sifting them. This perpetually unclassifiable and unfinished book of self-reflective fragments was first published in Portuguese in 1982, and it is arguably Pessoa's masterpiece. Four previous English translations, all published in 1991, were compromised either by abridgement, poor translation or error-laden source texts. While he's now a Pessoa veteran—having edited and translated
Reviewed on: 11/11/2002
Genre: Nonfiction
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