这是葡萄牙作家费尔南多·佩索阿晚期随笔结集，都是“仿日记”片断体。它是作者的代表之一，是一部曾经长期散佚的作品，后来由众多佩索阿的研究专家们搜集整理而成。 作者在随笔中的立场时有变化，有时是个精神化的人，有时则成了物质化的人；有时是个个人化的人，有时则成了社会化的人；有时是个贵族化的人，有时则成了平民化的人；有时是个科学化的人，有时则成了信仰化的人……这是变中有恒，异中有同，是自相矛盾中的坚定，是不如所云中的明确。正是这种精神气质、这种独自面向全世界的突围，使佩索阿被当代评论家誉为“欧洲现代主义的核心人物”、“杰出的经典作家”、“最能深化人们心灵”的作家。 我国当代著名作家韩少功拾译家遗漏，精选出原作的五分之四，译成中文，文笔优美，读来赏心悦目。

With its astounding hardcover reviews Richard Zenith's new complete translation of THE BOOK OF DISQUIET has now taken on a similar iconic status to ULYSSES, THE TRIAL or IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME as one of the greatest but also strangest modernist texts. An assembly of sometimes linked fragments, it is a mesmerising, haunting 'novel' without parallel in any other culture.

For the first time―and in the best translation ever―the complete Book of Disquiet, a masterpiece beyond comparison 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, including over 150 pages that have never appeared in any previous English edition. 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. A monumental literary event, this exciting, new, complete edition spans Fernando Pessoa’s entire writing life.

Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology, and horoscope. When he died in 1935, Pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable pages that make up his posthumous masterpiece, , an astonishing work that, in George Steiner's words, "gives to Lisbon the haunting spell of Joyce's Dublin or Kafka's Prague." Published for the first time some fifty years after his death, this unique collection of short, aphoristic paragraphs comprises the "autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa's alternate selves. Part intimate diary, part prose poetry, part descriptive narrative, captivatingly translated by Richard Zenith, is one of the greatest works of the twentieth century.