Verwandte Artikel zu The Book of Disquiet
Inhaltsangabe
This journal by the Portuguese modernist poet explores themes such as multiple selves, social isolation, and the preeminent value of art
Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.
Reseña del editor
This journal by the Portuguese modernist poet explores themes such as multiple selves, social isolation, and the preeminent value of art
„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.
Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels
Suchergebnisse für The Book of Disquiet
Beispielbild für diese ISBN
The Book of Disquiet
Verlag:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1991
ISBN 10: 0679402349
ISBN 13: 9780679402343
Gebraucht
Hardcover
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Verkäuferbewertung 5 von 5 Sternen
Zustand: Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Artikel-Nr. 6046426-6
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar
Beispielbild für diese ISBN
THE BOOK OF DISQUIET
Anbieter: Mooney's bookstore, Den Helder, Niederlande
Verkäuferbewertung 4 von 5 Sternen
Zustand: Very good. Artikel-Nr. 9780679402343-2-2
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar
Beispielbild für diese ISBN
The Book of Disquiet
Verlag:
Pantheon Books, 1991
ISBN 10: 0679402349
ISBN 13: 9780679402343
Gebraucht
Hardcover
Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Remarks Used Books, Pittsfield, MA, USA
Verkäuferbewertung 5 von 5 Sternen
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. First American Edition. Translated from the Portuguese by Alfred Mac Adam. 278pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in FINE condition. "Here, for the first time in English, are selections from the major prose work of Fernando Pessoa, the most important Portuguese man of letters of the twentieth century and one of the most innovative poets of all time. Writing under an assortment of guises, or 'heteronyms'--including Bernardo Soares, the nominal author of THE BOOK OF DISQUIET--and in a variety of poetic styles from avant-garde to neoclassical, Pessoa created a heterogeneous literary tradition, a 'generation' of poets, in and of himself. [] Reminiscent of Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, THE BOOK OF DISQUIET is composed of reveries and everyday impressions from the last two decades of Pessoa's life. It partakes of the genres of the intimate diary, prose and poetry, and the descriptive narrative, anticipating the works of Beckett, Nabokov, Borges, and Pynchon. And more: just as Ulysses brilliantly evokes the life of Dublin, so does THE BOOK OF DISQUIET capture the city of Lisbon--the heart of Portuguese language and culture--and its glorious and inglorious past." [jacket copy] "Pessoa (1888-1935), identified by Barnard professor Mac Adam as Portugal's major 20th-century writer, seems to have interpreted Whitman's statement 'I contain multitudes' as an imperative; the gifted and perfectionist poet gave voice to a variety of selves, whom he named not with pseudonyms but with what he called heteronyms. The elegant volume here is the 'diary' of 'Bernardo Soares,' presented as a bookkeeper, like Pessoa, who is obsessed with the role and aim of literature and tries, therefore, to become 'like a character in a book, a read life.' No plot orders the entries, nor is there any discernible progression. Instead, Pessoa speculates on the paradoxes of art ("Only when I'm disguised am I really myself"), at times mordantly ("To speak is to have too much consideration for others. Both fish and Oscar Wilde die because they can't keep their mouths shut"), at times quixotically ("Writing is like the drug I despise but take, the vice I loathe but practice"), nearly always aphoristically. Readers with a particular interest in modernism will find this work indispensable."--Publishers Weekly. Fine hardcover w/tiny foxing on pages head & slight fading on boards edges, o/w pristine w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in an intact fine-as-new jacket. All quite presentable. Artikel-Nr. RUB3434
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar
Foto des Verkäufers
THE BOOK OF DISQUIET
Anbieter: Arches Bookhouse, Portland, OR, USA
Verkäuferbewertung 5 von 5 Sternen
Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Zustand: VERY GOOD. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: NEAR FINE. First Edition. First English Edition, first printing. 278pp. 12mo, tan paper over boards backed in gray cloth with blue foil spine lettering. Book edges sunned, some very faint dusting to the top edge and light thumbing to the fore edge, otherwise clean and sound with square binding. DJ spine almost imperceptibly sunned, very clean and crisp otherwise, price of $25 intact. '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.' (From the New Directions edition). Artikel-Nr. 508594
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar