Buy Buy AmazonBarnes & NobleYour Independent Bookstore Here we finally see these poems as they ought to be seen… When I read Pessoa (in his own voice and in the voices of his heteronyms), what I am left with, rather than answers, or even questions, is a feeling, the embarrassment of a genuine sensation, one I might sheepishly call love. — Tyler Malone, Poetry Foundation Pessoa’s amazing personality is as beguiling and mysterious as his unique poetic output. — William Boyd Pessoa invented numerous alter egos. Arguably, the four greatest poets in the Portuguese language were all Pessoa using different names. — NPR As searing as Rilke or Mandelstam. — The New York Times This newly edited English edition is set to become the definitive version of Pessoa’s masterwork. — Caravan Readers with a liking for Walter Benjamin and Miguel de Unamuno, Pessoa’s intellectual kin, will find much of interest in Pessoa’s pages… — Kirkus Reviews Indispensable. — Publishers Weekly Extraordinary—a haunting mosaic of dreams, autobiographical vignettes, shards of literary theory and criticisms and maxims. — George Steiner Pessoa’s work The Book of Disquiet is one of life’s great miracles. Pessoa invented numerous alter egos. Arguably, the four greatest poets in the Portuguese language were all Pessoa using different names. — NPR Pessoa’s rapid prose, snatched in flight and restlessly suggestive, remains haunting, often startling. There is nobody like him. — W.S. Merwin, The New York Review of Books I have no doubt that reading more than writing was his primary and long-lasting literary occupation. — Patricio Ferrari, The Paris Review , Has anyone read the latest iteration, albeit a couple years old, of Book of Disquiet? I think the publisher is New Directions. This one says it’s the complete edition. Just ordered a copy on Amazon. From Publishers Weekly's review of the Penguin edition:, Thus, when Pessoa describes “The Book of Disquiet” as “the autobiography of someone who never existed,” he is simultaneously telling a factual truth (there was no such person as Guedes .