How long does it take to read The Book of Disquiet?
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa takes about 8 hours 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 44 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1982. 476 pages, about 130,900 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 33 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 27 minutes |
The page count is the median across 85 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa's greatest literary achievement. An "autobiography" or "diary" containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions. Now, for the first time the texts are presented chronologically, in a complete English edition by master translator Margaret Jull Costa. Most of the texts in The Book of Disquiet are written under the semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares, an assistant bookkeeper. This existential masterpiece was first published in Portuguese in 1982, forty-seven years after Pessoa's death. A monumental literary event, this exciting, new, complete edition spans Fernando Pessoa's entire writing life. --
Subjects: Portuguese Poets, Poetas portugueses, Fiction, Biografía, Biography, Modern fiction
