
The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa · 1982
Not a conventional novel. A fragment-diary of a fictional heteronym (Bernardo Soares), assembled from thousands of scraps found in a trunk after Pessoa's death in 1935. Published in 1982. A meditation on consciousness, anonymity, and the beauty of things never done. There is nothing else like it in world literature.
Literary Fiction · the Pro canon
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