readers of Zenith's edition will find it supersedes all others in its delicacy of style, rigorous scholarship and sympathy for Pessoa's fractured sensibility. a strangely addictive pleasure." -Sunday Times "Must rank as the supreme assault on authorship in modern European literature. I love this strange work of fiction and I love the inventive, hard-drinking, modest man who wrote it in obscurity." -Independent "Fascinating, even gripping stuff. Richard Zenith has done an heroic job in producing the best English-language version we are likely to see for a long time, if ever." -The Guardian "The Book of Disquiet was left in a trunk which might never have been opened. In a time which celebrates fame, success, stupidity, convenience and noise, here is the perfect antidote, a hymn of praise to obscurity, failure, intelligence, difficulty, and silence." -The Daily Telegraph "His prose masterpiece. no one has explored alternative selves with Pessoa's mixture of determination and abandon. I want Pessoa to be as great as the version Zenith presents." -Chris Power, New Statesman "A Modernist touchstone. most accurately conveys the style and spirit of Pessoa, but judging the English alone, Zenith's translation is most compelling. "I can't tell which of the three English-language editions of The Book of Disquiet I've read.
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