Readers with a particular interest in modernism will find this work
indispensable.--Publishers Weekly
Pessoa's amazing personality is as beguiling and mysterious as his
unique poetic output.--William Boyd
A self-deprecating reflection on the sheer distance between the
loftiness of feelings and the humdrum reality of life, The Book of
Disquiet is a classic of existentialist literature.
Fernando Pessoa, one of the founders of modernism, was born in
Lisbon in 1888. Most of Pessoa's writing was not published during his
lifetime: The Book of Disquiet was first published in Portugal in
1982.