The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa Translator: Jonathan Galassi

Translator: Jonathan Galassi

fuelled by endless cups of hot coffee

Characters observe their fellow citizens from afar

the thread of troubled sensuality that binds him to his mother

Translator: Sophie Wilkins

The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa Translator: Jonathan GalassiFernando Pessoa, strictly speaking, doesn't exist,' so claimed Alvaro de Campos, one of the 'heteronyms', fully realised substitute personalities invented by Fernando Pessoa to spare himself the trouble of living real life. In this extraordinary book, the putative 'factless autobiography' of an accountant named Bernardo Soares, Fernando Pessoa explores and dismantles the nature of memory, identity, time and narrative, creating one of the greatest but