![]() You may want to get the Zenith as well, for Pessoa speaks to insomniacs, being one himself but this edition is a very good book to keep by your side during those encounters with the mundane that can vex the sensitive soul. ![]() This one publishes 259 of the fragments and is much more wieldy a pocket edition rather than a bedside one. (The trunk also contained another 25,000 pieces, 150 of which literary scholars have tacked on for some editions.) The best English-language version is translated by Richard Zenith and published by Penguin, but that comes in at more than 500 pages. ![]() Apart from a few fragments he suffered to be published in his lifetime, Pessoa's greatest work took the form of 350 fragments shoved into an envelope found in a trunk after his death. T here will never be a definitive edition of The Book of Disquiet, however hard anyone tries. ![]()
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