- Portuguese Poets, Poetas portugueses, Fiction, Biografía
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.
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- Author
- Fernando Pessoa
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 472
- Publisher
- Seix Barral, Publicações Europa-América, Naxos AudioBooks
- Editions
- 85
- Language
- Spanish, gre, French, Italian
- ISBN
- 9788526022065
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“Installed on the upper floors of certain respectable taverns in Lisbon can be found a small number of restaurants or eating places, which have the stolid, homely look of those restaurants you see in towns that lack even a train station.”
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (Lisboa, 13 de junho de 1888 – Lisboa, 30 de novembro de 1935) foi um poeta português identificado com o modernismo, amplamente reconhecido como um dos principais expoentes da língua portuguesa e o maior poeta lusófono do século XX. Atuou também como dramaturgo, ensaísta, tradutor, publicitário, astrólogo, inventor, empresário, correspondente comercial, crítico literário e comentador político. ---------- Fernando Pessoa was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher, and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language.
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