THE BOOK OF DISQUIET - PESSOA, FERNANDO 0.30KG IN SOUTH AFRICA

Softcover. English. Serpent's Tail. 1991. ISBN: 9781852422042. 262pp. Softcover in good condition. 'In the middle of the conversations with myself that make up this book, I often feel a sudden need to talk to someone else, so I address the light hovering, as it does now, above the roofs of houses...'Seated at his desk in the Lisbon's Rua Dos Douradores, Bernardo Soares, an assistant book-keeper, writes his diary - a self-deprecating reflection on the sheer distance between the loftiness of his feelings and the humdrum reality of his everyday life.This is the first translation of a classic of existential literature - a book acknowledged by the critics as 'the most beautiful diary of the century.' Book No: 46511