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A Very Original Dinner by Fernando Pessoa; Natalia Jerez Quintero (Editor)
$26.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Herr Prosit, President of the Gastronomical Society in Berlin, has perhaps grown complacent with his elaborately planned banquets and artistically prepared meals. Noticeable lapsed into melancholy as his guests—including five young gastronomers with whom he has developed a bitter rivalry—discuss the dec ...Show more
I Have More Souls Than One (Mini Modern Classics) by Fernando Pessoa
$2.50 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Penguin Modern
But no, she's abstract, is a bird, Of sound in the air of air soaring, And her soul sings unencumbered, Because the song's what makes her sing.'Dramatic, lyrical and ranging over four distinct personae, these poems by one of Portugal's greatest poets trace a mind shaken by intense suffering and a tirele ...Show more
Selected Poems: Fernando Pessoa by Fernando Pessoa
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The writing of Fernando Pessoa reveals a mind shaken by intense inner suffering. In these poems he adopted four separate personae: Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis and himself, using them to express 'great swarms of thought and feeling'. While each personae has its own poetic identity, tog ...Show more
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (tr Margaret Jull Costa; ed Maria Jose de Lancastre)
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"There is a distinguished mind at work beneath the totally acceptable dullness of clerking. The mind is that of Pessoa. We must be given the chance to learn more about him."--Anthony Burgess, "Observer" Seated at his desk in the Lisbon's Rua dos Douradores, Bernardo Soares, an assistant book-keeper, wr ...Show more
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator); William Boyd (Foreword by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
The Book of Disquiet is one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. Written over the course of Fernando Pessoa's life, it was first published in 1982, pieced together from the thousands of individual manuscript pages left behind by Pessoa after his death in 1935. Now this fragmentary moder ...Show more
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
This edition is out of print. 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 sometim ...Show more
The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition by Fernando Pessoa
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Sitting at his desk, Bernardo Soares imagined himself free forever of Rua dos Douradores, of his boss Vasques, of Moreira the book-keeper, of all the other employees, the errand boy, the post boy, even the cat. But if he left them all tomorrow and discarded the suit of clothes he wears, what else would ...Show more
The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition by Fernando Pessoa
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Book of Disquiet is one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. Written over the course of Fernando Pessoa's life, it was first published in 1982, pieced together from the thousands of individual manuscript pages left behind by Pessoa after his death in 1935. Now this fragmentary moder ...Show more
The Complete Works of Álvaro de Campos by Fernando Pessoa
$35.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Álvaro de Campos is one of the most influential heteronyms created by Portugal's great modernist writer Fernando Pessoa. According to Pessoa, Campos was born in Tavira (Algarve) in 1890 and studied mechanical engineering in Glasgow, although he never managed to complete his degree. In his own day, Campo ...Show more
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