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The Book of Unrest Author: Fernando Pessoa (Portugal) / Jerónimo Pizarro (Colombia) Publisher: Beijing United Publishing Company
The Book of Unrest Author: Fernando Pessoa (Portugal) / Jerónimo Pizarro (Colombia) Publisher: Beijing United Publishing Company
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Introduction · · · · · ·
【Editor's recommendation】
※The most representative work of Pessoa, the core figure of European modernism!
※Collector's edition commemorating the 40th anniversary of the original publication, translated directly from Portuguese by young translators Jin Xinyi and Zhou Miao
※Restore the sobbing of the Portuguese national treasure poet's soul
【Media Recommendation】
Pessoa's prose is fast-paced, instantly arresting, full of disturbing hints, lingering, often startling, like touching a vibrating string, elusive, long-lasting, like poetry... He is unmatched. - The New York Review of Books
Pessoa is an amazing Portuguese poet who surpasses all of Borges in his fantasy writing. --Harold Bloom
【Content Introduction】
Fernando Pessoa, a national treasure of Portugal, wrote more than 100 diary-style essays under different pseudonyms over 20 years, which were collected and compiled into this book. Each pseudonym is a side of Pessoa's personality, showing us the lonely and magnificent thought universe of a generation of masters.
The Book of Uneasy is based on the edited version by the famous Pessoa scholar Jerónimo Pizarro, and faithfully restores the stage characteristics of Pessoa's creation and the life journey of this literary giant. It writes about the various feelings of modern people, unprecedentedly showing the loneliness and resolute beauty of human nature, and resonates with us with its incomparable poetry and philosophy.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) was a great Portuguese writer and poet in the 20th century, and one of the representatives of Portuguese late symbolism. After his death, he left behind more than 25,000 pages of manuscripts, including poems, essays, literary criticism, philosophical essays, translations, etc., which were made public and caused a sensation. The world of Pessoa's works is composed of many "heteronyms", constructing a huge, complete and mysterious literary universe.
Jin Xinyi is currently teaching at the Portuguese Department of the School of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at Beijing Foreign Studies University. She is mainly engaged in teaching and research in Portuguese-speaking countries’ literature and translation, Portuguese language and culture, and comparative art. Her translations include Marine Plastics: An Invasive Species, The Art of Music, and Sleepwalking Earth.
Zhou Miao is currently the foreign executive director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Coimbra and the Portuguese co-executive director of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences-University of Coimbra China Research Center. He is mainly engaged in Pessoa research and promotes cultural and technological exchanges between China and Portuguese-speaking countries. He has published Chinese and foreign papers such as "Two Dantes and Pessoa", "Pessoa's Translation in China", and "China-Europe Cultural and Academic Exchanges from Portugal".
